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| Named Person: | Simonides; Simonides; Simónides |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Deborah Dickmann Boedeker; David Sider |
| ISBN: | 0195137671 9780195137675 |
| OCLC Number: | 644840639 |
| Description: | xii, 312 p. : il. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Deborah Boedeker and David Sider. |
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Publisher Synopsis
Possessors of this book will often in years to come take their copies from shelf to desk. Noble poetry, as Simonides proclaimed, outlives a leafy mortality; but so also does fine scholarship. Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review ... the present volume deserves a warm welcome. The editors have brought together, with skill, tact, and accuracy, eighteen essays ... the book has a certain coherence, aided by judicious cross-referencing; and the quality of editing has been high. Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review This book provides an excellent appraisal of the state of scholarship on the "New Simonides". It surpasses most edited volumes in the degree to which the contributors are clearly aware of one another's essays and provide cross-references to sustain the course of the questioning about the text. It has launched some important new challenges about the historical and literary traditions represented by the text. American Journal of Philology Read more...
