Lykophron: Alexandra
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 November 2022
- ISBN 9780198863342
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 198x129x8 mm
- Weight 140 g
- Language English 409
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Short description:
The Alexandra, attributed to Lykophron is a minor poetic masterpiece. At 1474 lines, it is one of the most important and notoriously difficult Greek poems dating from the Hellenistic period.
MoreLong description:
Traditionally ascribed to the early third-century BCE tragedian Lykophron, the Alexandra is a powerful Greek poem by an unknown author, probably written c. 190, when Rome had defeated Hannibal and the Carthaginians and was poised to humble the Seleukid king Antiochos III. The poem is an ingeniously constructed masterpiece, a generic mix with elements of tragedy, epic, and history.
Priam's beautiful daughter, the prophetic Kassandra, foresees her rape in Athena's temple by the hateful Greek warrior Ajax after Troy's fall, and warns of disastrous returns (nostoi) for all the Greek 'heroes'. But Troy will rise again as Rome, founded by Trojan refugees. Alexandra (another name for Kassandra), narrates these Mediterranean foundation myths, adopting a bitterly disillusioned female perspective, but culminating in prophecies of Roman rule over land and sea.
Simon Hornblower's translation offers an excellent introduction to, and guide through, Lycophron's "dark" poem ...This wonderful translation will bring Lycophron's poem to the wider audience it deserves.
Table of Contents:
Preface and Acknowledgments
Note on the text and translation
Select Bibliography
Timeline
Synopsis of the Poem
Introduction
THE ALEXANDRA OF LYKOPHRON
Explanatory notes
Index
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