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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822590403321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-770485-9

1-280-47376-2

0-19-535022-7

1-4337-0057-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

884.01

Soggetti

Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)

Praise in literature

Desire in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Part I; Part II; Bibliography; Index Locorum; General Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Greek poet Simonides produced elegies, threnodies, choral odes and a small epic. In 1992 a new fragment of the oxyranchus papyri was discovered to contain a substantial amount of his work, which has revolutionised scholars' views.