Simonides the poet : intertextuality and reception / Richard Rawles
2018, First Edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #442267
ISBN: 9781107141704
Physical description; xii, 309 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; Diachronic Reading: The Approach and Plan of This Book; Intertextuality; Reception and Anecdote; Economics of Poetry; Part I Simonides and the Poets of the Past; 1 Epic Traditions in Lyric Songs; Introduction to Part I; Meleager and the Poetics of Exemplarity: Simonides, Stesichorus and Homer (564 PMG = 273 Poltera); Singing to the Laos in Simonides, Pindar and Bacchylides; The Extent of Simonides' Meleager-logos; The Myth of Meleager in Simonides, Epic and Stesichorus. Broader Resonances: Meleager as ExemplumExemplum and Victory: Simonides' Meleager; Conclusions; The Visible Logos: Allegory and Intertext (579 PMG = 257 Poltera); Textual Problems; 'There is a story ... ': Fable, Gnome, Allusion; Interpreting the Fragment's Relation to Hesiod; Allusion and Allegory; Fragment and Context; Seeing the Logos: Vision, Blindness and Tradition; Double Meanings; Conclusions: Allusion and Allegory, Poet and Audience; 2 The 'New Simonides'; Simonides' Iliad: Intertextual Panhellenism; The 'Plataea Elegy'; Possible Contexts; Hellas and Sparta. Aristodamus the ArgiveAristodamus and the Interpretation of Isthmian 2; Sophoi, Pindar and Simonides; Addressee, Argument and Sophia; Conclusion: Isthmian 2, Money and Simonides; 4 Simonides and Wealth; Introduction: Anecdotes, Reception and Scholarship; Simonides Kimbix: A Sketch; Xenophanes; Aristophanes; Plato and [Plato]; Xenophon; Aristotle (and More Plato); Chamaeleon; An Anonymous Compilation (Third Century bc); The Thessalian Disaster; The Third Century bc and Later: Observations; 5 From Stories to Songs; Introduction: Simonides in the Light of the Anecdotal Tradition. 'O for a Beaker Full of the Cold North!' Simonides fr. 25 WThe 'Snow Poem' and Hesiod; Cloaks; Interpretation of the 'Snow Poem'; Simonides, Editors and Readers: The Attribution of fr. 25 W; The Cloak and the Octopus (Simonides 514 PMG = 3 Poltera); Epinician, Fable, Iambus; Conclusion; 6 Simonides, History and Kleos; Introduction; Simonides in Theocritus 16: An Outline; Theocritus 16 and Sicilian Ideology: Historical Readings; Simonides in Theocritus 16: The Anecdotal Tradition; Simonides in Theocritus 16: Sicily and Thessaly; Theocritus' Thessalians and Archaic Presentations of Kleos. Subjects; Simonides approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C. Criticism and interpretation. Simonides approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C. LITERARY CRITICISM/ Ancient & Classical. Greek poetry, Hellenistic History and criticism. Poets, Greek. Lost literature Greece.
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