Simonides is tantalising and enigmatic, known both from fragments and from an extensive tradition of anecdotes. This monograph, the first in English for a generation, employs a two-part diachronic approach: Richard Rawles first reads Simonidean fragments with attention to their intertextual relation...

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1. Verfasser:	Rawles, Richard (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
Schlagworte:	Simonides / approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C. / Criticism and interpretation Simonides > Ceus > ca. v556-v467 Intertextualität Rezeption Hochschulschrift
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Zusammenfassung:	Simonides is tantalising and enigmatic, known both from fragments and from an extensive tradition of anecdotes. This monograph, the first in English for a generation, employs a two-part diachronic approach: Richard Rawles first reads Simonidean fragments with attention to their intertextual relationship with earlier works and traditions, and then explores Simonides through his ancient reception. In the first part, interactions between Simonides' own poems and earlier traditions, both epic and lyric, are studied in his melic fragments and then in his elegies. The second part focuses on an important strand in Simonides' ancient reception, concerning his supposed meanness and interest in remuneration. This is examined in Pindar's Isthmian 2, and then in Simonides' reception up to the Hellenistic period. The book concludes with a full re-interpretation of Theocritus 16, a poem which engages both with Simonides' poems and with traditions about his life
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Apr 2018)
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xii, 309 pages)
ISBN:	9781316493816
DOI:	10.1017/9781316493816