The New Simonides Hardcover 1st Edition
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Author 1
Deborah Dickmann Boedeker
Book Description
Over the course of his life (550-460 BC), the Greek poet Simonides produced poetic work of every kind then extant: elegies, threnodies, choral odes, countless epigrams, even a small epic. Unfortunately, Simonides' corpus has survived only in fragments, though classical scholars have been studying his work for generations. In 1992, a new fragment of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri was discovered to contain a substantial and previously undiscovered chunk of Simonides' work, and this fragment enabled papyrologists to attribute an earlier unearthed fragment to Simonides as well. Together, the two fragments revolutionized the study of Simondies, casting particular light on the epic of Plataea. Boedecker an
ISBN-10
0195137671
ISBN-13
9780195137675
Language
English
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication Date
23-Dec-12
Number of Pages
328
Author 2
David Sider
Edition Number
1st Edition