Simonides on the Persian Wars

A Study of the Elegiac Verses of the "New Simonides"

Lawrence M. Kowerski (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

260 Seiten

2012
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-65170-7 (ISBN)

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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.

This book considers what evidence the "new Simonides" fragments offer for Simonides' elegiac compositions on the Persian Wars. The current orthodoxy is that they represent three separate elegies on individual battles, one on Artemisium, one on Salamis, and one on Plataea. Kowerski evaluates what evidence these fragments provide for these compositions, and in doing so, questions the validity of the current interpretation of the "new Simonides."

Lawrence M. Kowerski

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.6.2012
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Classics
Zusatzinfo	15 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-415-65170-0 / 0415651700
ISBN-13	978-0-415-65170-7 / 9780415651707
Zustand	Neuware