Simonides the poet: intertextuality and reception

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Groundbreaking study of the poet Simonides, approaching his work through intertextual readings of the fragments and his ancient reception.

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Full title :Simonides the poet : intertextuality and reception / Richard Rawles.

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Groundbreaking study of the poet Simonides, approaching his work through intertextual readings of the fragments and his ancient reception.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

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Description:1 online resource (xii, 309 pages) : : illustrations

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ISBN:9781108699563, 1108699561, 9781316493816, 1316493814, 1108651763, 9781108651769
oclc:on1030609445
LC Classification:PA4411
Dewey Decimal:884.01

Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; Diachronic Reading: The Approach and Plan of This Book; Intertextuality; Reception and Anecdote; Economics of Poetry; Part I Simonides and the Poets of the Past; 1 Epic Traditions in Lyric Songs; Introduction to Part I; Meleager and the Poetics of Exemplarity: Simonides, Stesichorus and Homer (564 PMG = 273 Poltera); Singing to the Laos in Simonides, Pindar and Bacchylides; The Extent of Simonides' Meleager-logos; The Myth of Meleager in Simonides, Epic and Stesichorus.

Broader Resonances: Meleager as ExemplumExemplum and Victory: Simonides' Meleager; Conclusions; The Visible Logos: Allegory and Intertext (579 PMG = 257 Poltera); Textual Problems; 'There is a story ... ': Fable, Gnome, Allusion; Interpreting the Fragment's Relation to Hesiod; Allusion and Allegory; Fragment and Context; Seeing the Logos: Vision, Blindness and Tradition; Double Meanings; Conclusions: Allusion and Allegory, Poet and Audience; 2 The 'New Simonides'; Simonides' Iliad: Intertextual Panhellenism; The 'Plataea Elegy'; Possible Contexts; Hellas and Sparta.

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