Fragments of Timotheus of Miletus

Zusatztext Hordern's introduction carefully reappraises Timotheus's life and poetic activity, while the commentary provides detailed explication of linguistic, metrical, and thematic points. This is a work of meticulous philology. Informationen zum Autor J.H. Hordern is Research Fellow in the Department of Classics, University College, Dublin Klappentext This is the first new edition for more than a decade of the fragments of Timotheus of Miletus, one of the most important Greek poets of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. It includes a comprehensive commentary (the fullest available) and an extensive introduction. Zusammenfassung An edition of Timotheus of Miletus' extant work, a Greek lyric poet of the 5th and 4th centuries BC and one of the most important poets of the period, includes the fragments surviving only through other author's work. The editor's "Persae" text was based on examination of the original papyrus. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I. Timotheus of Miletus B: The Poems II. Genre B: The Nome III. Music and Style B: Style IV. Language B: Phonology C: Morphology V. Metre and Prosody B: Prosody VI. The Papyrus B: Description VII. Timotheus in Antiquity Sigla Text Commentary Indexes

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• Authors: James Hordern, James H. Hordern, James H. (Research Fellow in the Departme Hordern, Hordern James H., Timotheus
• Assisted by: J H Hordern (Editor), J. H. Hordern (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2002
• EAN: 9780199246946
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924694-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Oxford Classical Monographs; Oxford Classical Monographs
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; POETRY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets