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Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies David Sider (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, New York University)

Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies By David Sider (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, New York University)

Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies by David Sider (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, New York University)


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This edition and commentary covers, for the most part, those poems by Simonides written in elegiac distichs now called epigrams and elegies. Each poem and fragment is accompanied by a detailed commentary and translation, where applicable, while a comprehensive general Introduction sets Simonides and his works into their historical context.

Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies Summary

Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary by David Sider (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, New York University)

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.

Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies 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 *
Sider's overview of Simonides' epigrams and elegies, with analysis of the literary and linguistic elements, manuscript tradition, and historical background of each poem and fragment, sidesteps the debates over which poems are genuine Simonides; Sider tends to take a refreshingly optimistic Simonides-until proven-otherwise stance, in opposition to the overcautious pessimism of earlier scholars. His volume-meant to complement Orlando Poltera's commentary on Simonides' lyric poems-is essentially a book of footnotes, offering some Nabokovian pleasures one might not otherwise expect, its scholarship leavened with humor, wit, and intriguing asides. * A. E. Stallings, New York Review of Books *

About David Sider (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, New York University)

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures INTRODUCTION 1. The Scope of this Work 2. Birth and Death 2.1. Life 3. Simonidean Anecdotes 4. Works 5. *?*L*?*G*?*?*? 6. Textual Transmission 6.1. Elegies 6.2. Epigrams 7. Meter 8. Aelius Aristides 9. The Plan of this Edition TEXT, TRANSLATION, COMMENTARY Epigrams Elegies and Sympotica Bibliography 1. Abbreviations and Brief References 2. Editions of Simonides Containing Epigrams 3. Other Scholars Cited in Critical Apparatuses 4. Manuscript Epigram Sources 5. Texts of Some Frequently Cited Ancient Texts 6. Secondary Literature Concordances 1. Epigrams 2. Elegies and Sympotica Index Rerum Index Verborum Graecorum

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NPB9780198850793
9780198850793
0198850794
Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary by David Sider (Professor of Classics, Professor of Classics, New York University)
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Oxford University Press
2020-11-19
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