The new Simonides : contexts of praise and desire / edited by Deborah Boedeker and David Sider.

Other author Boedeker, Deborah Dickmann.
Other author Sider, David.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Descriptionxii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Contents Fragments 1-22 W² : text, apparatus criticus, and translation / David Sider -- The new Simonides : toward a commentary / Ian Rutherford -- "These fragments we have shored against our ruin" / Peter Parsons -- The genre of Plataea : generic unity in the new Simonides / Dirk Obbink -- The proem of Simonides' Plataea elegy and the circumstances of its performance / Antonio Aloni -- A bard of the Iron Age and his auxiliary muse / Eva Stehle -- Heroic historiography : Simonides and Herodotus on Plataea / Deborah Boedeker -- Epic and epiphanies : Herodotus and the "new Simonides" / Simon Hornblower -- Paths to heroization at Plataea / Deborah Boedeker -- Lords of Hellas, old men of the sea : the occasion of Simonides' elegy on Plataea / P.-J. Shaw -- The new Simonides and Homer's Hemitheoi / Jenny Strauss Clay -- Utopian and erotic fusion in a new elegy by Simonides / Sarah Mace -- To sing or to mourn? A reappraisal of Simonides 22 W² / Dimitrios Yatromanolakis -- "New Simonides" or old Semonides? Second thoughts on POxy 3965 fr. 26 / Thomas K. Hubbard -- Heroes, descendants of Hemitheoi : the proemium of Theocritus and Simonides 11 W² / Marco Fantuzzi -- The poet unleaved : Simonides and Callimachus / Richard Hunter -- Simonides and Horace on the death of Achilles / Alessandro Barchiesi -- Simonides and Horace / Stephen Harrison -- "As is the generation of leaves" in Homer, Simonides, Horace, and Stobaeus / David Sider.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-306) and indexes.
Issued in other formOnline version: New Simonides. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001
LCCN 00022462
ISBN0195137671 (cloth)
ISBN9780195137675 (cloth)