Asclepiades of Samos : epigrams and fragments / edited with translation and commentary by Alexander Sens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asclepiades, of Samos

Contributor:

Sens, Alexander.

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Miscellaneous languages

Subjects (All):

Asclepiades, of Samos--Criticism and interpretation.

Asclepiades.

Asclepiades, of Samos--Translations into English.

Asclepiades, of Samos.

Epigrams, Greek--Translations into English.

Epigrams, Greek.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

cxiv, 353 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

In English translated from the Ancient Greek and Ancient Greek

Contents:

Life and works

Asclepiades and inscribed epigram

Erotic epigram and its generic background. Elegy ; Lyric ; Comedy and mine

Narrative voice and genre

Asclepiades and his contemporaries. Theocritus ; Apollonius of Rhodes ; Callimachus ; Posidippus of Pella ; Hedylus

Asclepiades at court

Language and style. Dialect ; Poem length ; Syntax and word-order ; Diction and morphology

Metre. Prosody ; Hexameter ; Pentameter ; Sense-pause

The transmission of the text. Asclepiades and pre-Melagrean epigram books ; The problem of ascription ; Sources for the text ; Printed editions

Testimonia

Sigla

Text and commentary.

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199253197

0199253196

OCLC:

689008119