Simonides the poet : intertextuality and reception / Richard Rawles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rawles, Richard (Richard John), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Simonides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : 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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Apr 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-65176-3

1-316-49381-4

1-108-69956-1