{"product_id":"simonides-epigrams-and-elegies-edited-with-introduction-translation-and-commentary-9780198850793","title":"Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary","description":"Simonides of Ceos, one of the nine lyric poets enshrined in what is conventionally thought of as the Hellenistic Lyric Canon, is a relatively mysterious figure despite his renown in the classical world. Few historical and biographical facts about him have survived, and only fragments of his non-epigrammatic poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume is intended to complement Orlando Poltera's full-scale text and commentary on Simonides' lyrics (Schwabe, 2008), offering an up-to-date edition and commentary covering, for the most part, those poems in elegiac distichs now called epigrams and elegies. In addition to these forms, Simonides wrote in a few other non-lyric metrical patterns involving dactyls and iambs: these are also included for the sake of completeness, since they are properly absent from Poltera's edition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs authenticity is in question for all but a very few of the epigrams ascribed to Simonides, the volume's scope extends to cover every poem ascribed to him in antiquity, including some poems that are surely not by him: these poems have never before been treated in such detail and the large body of scholarship generated by the corpus as a whole is taken into account here for the first time. Each poem and fragment is accompanied by a new English translation, where applicable, and detailed exegetic line-by-line commentary; a comprehensive general Introduction sets Simonides and his works into their historical context and provides a thorough examination of the textual transmission of the elegies and epigrams.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Sider, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Classics, New York University\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Sider is Professor Classics at New York University. His research interests centre on Greek poetry and Greek philosophy: he has published editions of the fragments of Anaxagoras and the epigrams of Philodemus and his next big project continues his recent work on the former, comprising a collection of all ancient testimony, to appear in de Gruyter's \u003cem\u003eTraditio Praesocratica\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50494314414354,"sku":"9780198850793","price":177.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b41b0bc4-ca98-40df-b8ec-d5f9bdc3d45b.jpg?v=1730662812","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/simonides-epigrams-and-elegies-edited-with-introduction-translation-and-commentary-9780198850793","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}