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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: 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: 0
Pages: 0
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-04-08 - Publisher: Vintage
In the story of the great lyric poet Simonides, Mary Renault brings alive a time in Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patro
Language: en
Pages: 706
Pages: 706
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Stesichorus' lyric poetry vividly recreates the most dramatic episodes of Greek myth: the labours of Heracles, the sack of Troy, the vengeance of Orestes, and m
