Overview
Simonides of Ceos, one of the nine lyric poets enshrined in what is conventionally thought of as the Hellenistic Lyric Canon, is a relatively mysterious figure despite his renown in the classical world. Few historical and biographical facts about him have survived, and only fragments of his non-epigrammatic poetry.This volume is intended to complement Orlando Poltera's full-scale text and commentary on Simonides' lyrics (Schwabe, 2008), offering an up-to-date edition and commentary covering, for the most part, those poems in elegiac distichs now called epigrams and elegies. In addition to these forms, Simonides wrote in a few other non-lyric metrical patterns involving dactyls and iambs: these are also included for the sake of completeness, since they are properly absent from Poltera's edition. As authenticity is in question for all but a very few of the epigrams ascribed to Simonides, the volume's scope extends to cover every poem ascribed to him in antiquity, including some poems that are surely not by him: these poems have never before been treated in such detail and the large body of scholarship generated by the corpus as a whole is taken into account here for the first time. Each poem and fragment is accompanied by a new English translation, where applicable, and detailed exegetic line-by-line commentary; a comprehensive general Introduction sets Simonides and his works into their historical context and provides a thorough examination of the textual transmission of the elegies and epigrams.
Full Product Details
Author: David Sider (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, New York University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.944kg
ISBN: 9780198850793
ISBN 10: 0198850794
Pages: 478
Publication Date: 19 November 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Prof. Sider has provided classical scholars with a brand-new epigrammatic and elegiac Simonides in this masterful edition, translation, and commentary * Bernardo Berruecos Frank, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * David Sider has produced here the definitive work on the epigrams and elegies of Simonides. * Dr. Cliff Cunningham, Sun News Austin *
David Sider has produced here the definitive work on the epigrams and elegies of Simonides. * Dr. Cliff Cunningham, Sun News Austin *
Author Information
David Sider is Professor Classics at New York University. His research interests centre on Greek poetry and Greek philosophy: he has published editions of the fragments of Anaxagoras and the epigrams of Philodemus and his next big project continues his recent work on the former, comprising a collection of all ancient testimony, to appear in de Gruyter's Traditio Praesocratica.
