Simonides: Epigrams and Elegies: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

ISBN-13: 9780198850793 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 480 str.

David Sider

Recenzje

Sider's overview of Simonides' epigrams and elegies, with analysis of the literary and linguistic elements, manuscript tradition, and historical background of each poem and fragment, sidesteps the debates over which poems are genuine Simonides; Sider tends to take a refreshingly optimistic Simonides-until proven-otherwise stance, in opposition to the overcautious pessimism of earlier scholars. His volume-meant to complement Orlando Poltera's commentary on Simonides' lyric poems-is essentially a book of footnotes, offering some Nabokovian pleasures one might not otherwise expect, its scholarship leavened with humor, wit, and intriguing asides.

O autorze

David Sider is Professor Classics at New York University. His research interests centre on Greek poetry and Greek philosophy: he has published editions of the fragments of Anaxagoras and the epigrams of Philodemus and his next big project continues his recent work on the former, comprising a collection of all ancient testimony, to appear in de Gruyter's Traditio Praesocratica.