Simonides Lyricus
Author | : Peter Agócs |
Publisher | : Cambridge Philological Society |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2020-05-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781913701062 |
ISBN-13 | : 1913701069 |
Rating | : 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Download or read book Simonides Lyricus written by Peter Agócs and published by Cambridge Philological Society. This book was released on 2020-05-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simonides of Keos was one of the most important praise-poets of the early fifth century BCE, ranking alongside Pindar and Bacchylides. In Simonides Lyricus, a group of leading international experts revisit familiar questions about his lyric poetry, and pose new ones. Themes discussed include textual criticism and attribution of fragments; poetic genre and the place of the poet’s melic fragments in his larger oeuvre; the historical, cultural and political background of the poems; and Simonides’ afterlife in the biographical and anecdotal traditions that formed around his name. The volume makes a substantial contribution to modern discussions of Simonides’ place in Greek literary and cultural history and to the understanding of this poet’s often fragmentary and difficult texts.