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Language: en
Pages: 325
Pages: 325
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-06-14 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Over the course of his life (550-460 BC), the Greek poet Simonides produced poetic work of every kind then extant. Unfortunately, Simonides' corpus has survived
Language: en
Pages: 323
Pages: 323
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Simonides is tantalising and enigmatic, known both from fragments and from an extensive tradition of anecdotes. This monograph, the first in English for a gener
Language: en
Pages: 156
Pages: 156
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-11 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne
Language: en
Pages: 472
Pages: 472
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10 - Publisher:
This edition and commentary covers, for the most part, those poems by Simonides written in elegiac distichs now called epigrams and elegies. Each poem and fragm
Language: en
Pages: 462
Pages: 462
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-09-13 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in uniform seri
