The New Simonides: Contexts of Praise and Desire

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Deborah Boedeker, David Sider
Oxford University Press, Jun 14, 2001 - Literary Criticism - 328 pages
Over the course of his life (550-460 BC), the Greek poet Simonides produced poetic work of every kind then extant. Unfortunately, Simonides' corpus has survived only in fragments, though classical scholars have been studying his work for generations. The 1992 discovery of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri revolutionized the study of Simonides, casting particular light on the epic of Plataea. This edited volume gathers the best of the recent research on Simonides' newly expanded oeuvre into a single collection that will be an important reference for scholars of Greek poetry.

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Part II
31
Bibliography
289
Index Locorum
307
General Index
310
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Page 284 - ... multa renascentur quae iam cecidere, cadentque 70 quae nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus, quem penes arbitrium est et ius et norma loquendi.
Page 284 - Virgilio Varioque ? Ego cur, acquirere pauca Si possum, invideor, cum lingua Catonis et Enni Sermonem patrium ditaverit, et nova rerum Nomina protulerit ? Licuit, semperque licebit, Signatum praesente nota producere nomen.
Page 55 - O ye, who patiently explore The wreck of Herculanean lore, What rapture ! could ye seize Some Theban fragment, or unroll One precious, tender-hearted, scroll Of pure Simonides.
Page 270 - NON usitata nec tenui ferar penna biformis per liquidum aethera vates, neque in terris morabor longius, invidiaque maior urbis relinquam. non ego pauperum — 5 sanguis parentum, non ego quem vocas, dilecte Maecenas, obibo nec Stygia cohibebor unda.
Page 245 - ... poet, feed the victim to be as fat as possible but, my friend, keep the Muse 25 slender. This too I bid you : tread a path which carriages do not trample ; do not drive your chariot upon the common tracks of others, nor along a wide road, but on unworn paths, though your course be...
Page 245 - Muses more narrow. For we sing among those who love 30 the shrill voice of the cicala ° and not the noise of the . . . asses." Let others bray just like the longeared brute, but let me be the dainty, the winged one. Oh, yes indeed ! that I may sing living on...
Page 245 - For, when I first placed a tablet on my knees, Lycian * Apollo said to me : "... poet, feed the victim to be as fat as possible but, my friend, keep the Muse 25 slender.

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