The new Simonides : contexts of praise and desire / edited by Deborah Boedeker and David Sider
2001, First Edition. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. Fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #447977
ISBN: 0195137671
Physical description: (xii, 312 pages) : illustrations. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and indexes. Contents:
Fragments 1-22 W² : text, apparatus criticus, and translation / David Sider -- The new Simonides : toward a commentary / Ian Rutherford -- "These fragments we have shored against our ruin" / Peter Parsons -- The genre of Plataea : generic unity in the new Simonides / Dirk Obbink -- The proem of Simonides' Plataea elegy and the circumstances of its performance / Antonio Aloni -- A bard of the Iron Age and his auxiliary muse / Eva Stehle -- Heroic historiography : Simonides and Herodotus on Plataea / Deborah Boedeker -- Epic and epiphanies : Herodotus and the "new Simonides" / Simon Hornblower -- Paths to heroization at Plataea / Deborah Boedeker -- Lords of Hellas, old men of the sea : the occasion of Simonides' elegy on Plataea / P.-J. Shaw -- The new Simonides and Homer's Hemitheoi / Jenny Strauss Clay -- Utopian and erotic fusion in a new elegy by Simonides / Sarah Mace -- To sing or to mourn? A reappraisal of Simonides 22 W² / Dimitrios Yatromanolakis -- "New Simonides" or old Semonides? Second thoughts on POxy 3965 fr. 26 / Thomas K. Hubbard -- Heroes, descendants of Hemitheoi : the proemium of Theocritus and Simonides 11 W² / Marco Fantuzzi -- The poet unleaved : Simonides and Callimachus / Richard Hunter -- Simonides and Horace on the death of Achilles / Alessandro Barchiesi -- Simonides and Horace / Stephen Harrison -- "As is the generation of leaves" in Homer, Simonides, Horace, and Stobaeus / David Sider.
Subjects: Simonides approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C. Criticism and interpretation. Simonides approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C. Manuscripts.
Simonides approximately 556-467 B.C. Critique et interprétation.
Price: €100.00