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The New Simonides: Contexts of Praise and Desire

By Deborah Boedeker , David Sider

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0195137671, 9780195137675, 9781423757535, 9780195350227
LCC
PA4411 .N49 2001
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (19193815 bytes)
Pages
328\325
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Over the course of his life (550-460 BC), the Greek poet Simonides produced poetic work of every kind then extant. Unfortunately, Simonides' corpus has survived only in fragments, though classical scholars have been studying his work for generations. The 1992 discovery of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri revolutionized the study of Simonides, casting particular light on the epic of Plataea. This edited volume gathers the best of the recent research on Simonides' newly expanded oeuvre into a single collection that will be an important reference for scholars of Greek poetry.

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