Download or read book Polyeideia written by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-09-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems are especially significant as examples of cultural memory since they are composed both as an act of commemorating earlier poetry and as a manipulation of traditional features of iambic poetry to refashion the iambic genre. This book fills a significant gap by providing the first complete translation of several of these fragmentary poems in English, along with line-by-line commentary notes and literary analysis.".