Simonides on the Persian Wars - A Study of the Elegiac Verses of the 'New Simonides'

'[This book] contains much detailed, close argumentation ... [the] greates strength is its constant awareness of the dangers posed by fragmentary texts. If the books only virtue were to push readers back to unsupplemented texts and reconsideration of every piece of evidence, that would be enough to recommend it: and it does a good deal more than that.' – Journal of Hellenic Studies Informationen zum Autor Lawrence M. Kowerski This book examines the arrangement and interpretation of the recently published papyrus fragments named the 'new Simonides', and questions the current assumptions on which most modern scholarship is based. Zusammenfassung This book examines the arrangement and interpretation of the recently published papyrus fragments named the 'new Simonides', and questions the current assumptions on which most modern scholarship is based. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Too Many Fragments, Too Few Poems? Models for Combining the Fragments of the new Simonides 2. A Panhellenic Poem for Panhellenic War: The Subject Matter and Themes of the new Simonides 3. To Praise, To Commemorate, To Mourn: The new Simonides and Elegy Toward a Conclusion Appendix Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence M. Kowerski, Kowerski Lawrence M.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.08.2005
• EAN: 9780415972130
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97213-0
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Studies in Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general