Mimnermus: Elegies

Dimitrios Kanellakis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2023
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-83764-260-1 (ISBN)

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The seventh-century BCE Greek poet Mimnermus of Smyrna, whom C. M. Bowra called “the most accomplished and the most musical” of the early elegists, has not been as lucky as other poets of his era. Not updated by any recent papyrological discoveries (unlike e.g. Simonides, Archilochus or Sappho), his corpus remains slim, while the last full-scale commentary on his poems is now thirty years old. Hence the aim of this book is straightforward: to bring this unjustly understudied poet back to the forefront of research, and to advocate that, however exciting a papyrological discovery may be, one does not need new fragments to rediscover a classical author, insofar as “every rereading of a classic is as much a voyage of discovery as the first reading” (I. Calvino). This edition introduces a new Mimnermus, whose melancholy, it is argued against the common assumption, is only a generic pretext; behind that elegiac facade lurks a very playful poet, not just verbally and metrically spirited, but also ironical and risqué on occasions. The Introduction and Commentary analyze figurative language, alternative meanings, authorial markers, implied audience, performative clues, program of composition, narrative structure, intertextuality, and reception.

Dimitrios Kanellakis is Early Career Fellow, Centre for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University and Adjunct Lecturer in Ancient Greek, University of Cyprus. He is author of Aristophanes and the Poetics of Surprise (De Gruyter 2020), editor of Pathologies of Love in Classical Literature (De Gruyter 2021) and co-editor of Ancient Greek Comedy: Genre–Texts–Reception (De Gruyter 2020).

Introduction
Text and Translation
Commentary
Appendix I: Metrical notes Appendix II: Testimonia of lost fragments
Appendix III: Theognis’ or Mimnermus’?
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
Zusatzinfo	1 Maps; 7 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-83764-260-5 / 1837642605
ISBN-13	978-1-83764-260-1 / 9781837642601
Zustand	Neuware