Herodas: Mimes and Fragments

Informationen zum Autor Walter Headlam (1866–1908) was a classical scholar and poet, Fellow of Kings College, University of Cambridge, UK A.D. Knox met Headlam at Kings College Cambridge, and took up Headlam's Fellowship on his death. He worked in Bletchley breaking Italian and German cipher codes during the Second World war. Vorwort This is a comprehensive commentary on the surviving short mimes of Hero(n)das, which present the seamier, bawdier side of early third century BC Zusammenfassung The surviving short mimes of Hero(n)das share much of their aims and background with the Alexandrian poetry of the first half of the third century BC, especially that of Callimachus and Theocritus. This book provides a commentary on them. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionText and Notes: Mimes I-XVIndexes: Words, Index to Notes, Subject Index, Grammar, Metre, Style, Textual Criticism, Passages Illustrated or Emended.Facsimile of Portion of Papyrus CXXXV

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• Authors: W. G. Headlam, Walter Headlam, Headlam W. G., A D Knox, A. D. Knox, A.D. Knox, Knox A. D.
• Assisted by: A. D. Knox (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.08.2001
• EAN: 9781853996245
• ISBN: 978-1-85399-624-5
• No. of pages: 532
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Classic Commentaries; BCP Classic Commentary S.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Literary studies: plays and playwrights