Simonides the poet : intertextuality and reception / Richard Rawles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rawles, Richard (Richard John), author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Simonides, approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C.

Criticism and interpretation.

Simonides, approximately 556 B.C.-467 B.C--Criticism and interpretation.

Simonides.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 309 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Simonides is tantalising and enigmatic, known both from fragments and from an extensive tradition of anecdotes. This monograph, the first in English for a generation, employs a two-part diachronic approach: Richard Rawles first reads Simonidean fragments with attention to their intertextual relationship with earlier works and traditions, and then explores Simonides through his ancient reception. In the first part, interactions between Simonides' own poems and earlier traditions, both epic and lyric, are studied in his melic fragments and then in his elegies. The second part focuses on an important strand in Simonides' ancient reception, concerning his supposed meanness and interest in remuneration. This is examined in Pindar's Isthmian 2, and then in Simonides' reception up to the Hellenistic period. The book concludes with a full re-interpretation of Theocritus 16, a poem which engages both with Simonides' poems and with traditions about his life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781107141704

1107141702

OCLC:

1010998087