
Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies
Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 November 2020
- ISBN 9780198850793
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages478 pages
- Size 241x163x30 mm
- Weight 944 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 black-and-white illustrations 275
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Short description:
This edition and commentary covers, for the most part, those poems by Simonides written in elegiac distichs now called epigrams and elegies. Each poem and fragment is accompanied by a detailed commentary and translation, where applicable, while a comprehensive general Introduction sets Simonides and his works into their historical context.
MoreLong description:
Simonides of Ceos, one of the nine lyric poets enshrined in what is conventionally thought of as the Hellenistic Lyric Canon, is a relatively mysterious figure despite his renown in the classical world. Few historical and biographical facts about him have survived, and only fragments of his non-epigrammatic poetry.
This volume is intended to complement Orlando Poltera's full-scale text and commentary on Simonides' lyrics (Schwabe, 2008), offering an up-to-date edition and commentary covering, for the most part, those poems in elegiac distichs now called epigrams and elegies. In addition to these forms, Simonides wrote in a few other non-lyric metrical patterns involving dactyls and iambs: these are also included for the sake of completeness, since they are properly absent from Poltera's edition.
As authenticity is in question for all but a very few of the epigrams ascribed to Simonides, the volume's scope extends to cover every poem ascribed to him in antiquity, including some poems that are surely not by him: these poems have never before been treated in such detail and the large body of scholarship generated by the corpus as a whole is taken into account here for the first time. Each poem and fragment is accompanied by a new English translation, where applicable, and detailed exegetic line-by-line commentary; a comprehensive general Introduction sets Simonides and his works into their historical context and provides a thorough examination of the textual transmission of the elegies and epigrams.
Prof. Sider has provided classical scholars with a brand-new epigrammatic and elegiac Simonides in this masterful edition, translation, and commentary
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
INTRODUCTION
1. The Scope of this Work
2. Birth and Death
2.1. Life
3. Simonidean Anecdotes
4. Works
5. *??*??*?*?*?
6. Textual Transmission
6.1. Elegies
6.2. Epigrams
7. Meter
8. Aelius Aristides
9. The Plan of this Edition
TEXT, TRANSLATION, COMMENTARY
Epigrams
Elegies and Sympotica
Bibliography
1. Abbreviations and Brief References
2. Editions of Simonides Containing Epigrams
3. Other Scholars Cited in Critical Apparatuses
4. Manuscript Epigram Sources
5. Texts of Some Frequently Cited Ancient Texts
6. Secondary Literature
Concordances
1. Epigrams
2. Elegies and Sympotica
Index Rerum
Index Verborum Graecorum

Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
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