Simonides on the Persian Wars: A Study of the Elegiac Verses of the

Simonides on the Persian Wars: A Study of the Elegiac Verses of the "New Simonides"

by Lawrence M. Kowerski
Simonides on the Persian Wars: A Study of the Elegiac Verses of the
Simonides on the Persian Wars: A Study of the Elegiac Verses of the

Simonides on the Persian Wars: A Study of the Elegiac Verses of the "New Simonides"

by Lawrence M. Kowerski

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Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415651707
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/28/2012
Series: Studies in Classics
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 260
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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
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