Simonides Lyricus: essays on the ‘other’ classical choral lyric poet

Book : Edited book

Simonides of Keos was one of the most important praise-poets of the early fifth century BCE, ranking alongside Pindar and Bacchylides. In Simonides Lyricus, a group of leading international experts revisit familiar questions about his lyric poetry, and pose new ones. Themes discussed include textual criticism and attribution of fragments; poetic genre and the place of the poet’s melic fragments in his larger oeuvre; the historical, cultural and political background of the poems; and Simonides’ afterlife in the biographical and anecdotal traditions that formed around his name. The volume makes a substantial contribution to modern discussions of Simonides’ place in Greek literary and cultural history and to the understanding of this poet’s often fragmentary and difficult texts.

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Cambridge Philological Society
• Pages: 1-287
• Series: Supplements to Cambridge Classical Journal
• Series number: 42
• Place of publication: Cambridge
• Publication date: 2020-05-10
• Edition: 1
• EISBN: 9781913701062
• ISBN: 9780956838179
• Language: English
• Subtype: Edited book