The New Simonides: Contexts of Praise and Desire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195137675)

Over the course of his life (550-460 BC), the Greek poet Simonides produced poetic work of every kind then extant. Unfortunately, Simonides' corpus has survived only in fragments, though classical scholars have been studying his work for generations. The 1992 discovery of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri revolutionized the study of Simonides, casting particular light on the epic of Plataea. This edited volume gathers the best of the recent research on Simonides' newly expanded oeuvre into a single collection that will be an important reference for scholars of Greek poetry.

Author: Deborah Boedeker
ISBN-10: 0195137671
ISBN-13: 9780195137675
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 06/14/2001
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d