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Simonides Lyricus (Hardback)

Essays on the 'other' classical choral lyric poet

Ancient History > Ancient Greece & the Hellenistic World > Greek Art & Architecture P&S History > Humanities > Language & Literature

Imprint: Cambridge Philological Society
Series: Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Supplementary Volume
Pages: 290
Illustrations: 2 b&w
ISBN: 9780956838179
Published: 1st October 2020
Casemate UK Academic

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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.  

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