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Author:

Simonides, approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C., author.

Title:

Epigrams and elegies / Simonides ; edited with introduction, translation, and commentary by David Sider.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

467 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Subject:

Simonides,--approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C.--Translations into English.
Simonides,--approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C.
Epigrams.
Elegies (Poetry)
Epigrams, Greek.
Epigrams, Greek--Translations into English.
Elegiac poetry, Greek.
Elegiac poetry, Greek--Translations into English.
Epigrams.
Elegies (Poetry)
Translations.

Other Authors:

Container of (expression): Simonides, approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C. Works. English (Sider)
Container of (expression): Simonides, approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C. Works. Greek (Sider)
Sider, David, translator. translator.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-453) and index.

Contents:

2. Elegies and Sympotica. 2. Birth and Death -- 2.1. Life -- 3. Simonidean Anecdotes -- 4. Works -- 5. Eaeteia -- 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. Editions of Some Frequently Cited Ancient Texts -- 6. Secondary Literature -- Concordances -- 1. Epigrams -- 2. Elegies and Sympotica.

Summary:

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.0This 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. 0As 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 detailed0exegetic 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.

ISBN:

9780198850793
0198850794

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1136570886

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)