Herodas: Mimes and Fragments

Informationen zum Autor A.D. Knox met Walter Headlam at Kings College Cambridge, and took up Headlam's Fellowship on his death; their joint work is the exhaustive Herodas: Mimes and Fragments. He worked in Bletchley breaking Italian and German cipher codes during the Second World War. Klappentext 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. They are at once acutely aware of their literary ancestry, their choliambic metre based on archaic Hipponax, their genre on the traditions of Sophron, and their characters largely on the stock of New Comedy. They are literary and learned pieces but at the same time purport to present 'real life', particularly its seamier side - the bawd, the brothel-keeper, the purveyor of leather dildos. The mimes, comparable with but also interestingly different from the hexametre town mimes of Theocritus (and the Iamboi of Callimachus), present comic vignettes of life in Cos and Alexandria. This is the exhaustive work of Walter Headlam, edited and expanded after his death by A.D. Knox of King's College, Cambridge, originally published in 1922. It remains the most detailed scholarly commentary in existence. 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 Introduction Text and Notes: Mimes I-XV Indexes: Words, Index to Notes, Subject Index, Grammar, Metre, Style, Textual Criticism, Passages Illustrated or Emended. Facsimile of Portion of Papyrus CXXXV ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: W. G. Headlam, Walter Headlam, Headlam W. G., A D Knox, A. D. Knox, A.D. Knox, Knox A. D.
• Con la collaborazione di: A. D. Knox (Editore)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 24.08.2001
• EAN: 9781853996245
• ISBN: 978-1-85399-624-5
• Pagine: 532
• Dimensioni: 138 mm x 216 mm x 28 mm
• Serie: Classic Commentaries; BCP Classic Commentary S.
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; 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