Simonides: A Historical Study

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Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1992 - 375 pages
In his examination of the public life and poetic career of Simonides, Molyneux has provided a thorough examination of all the documentary evidence available with respect to one of history's major choral lyric poets.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Some Early Lyric Poems
33
Simonides and the Pisistratids
65
iii
77
Some Early Epigrams
81
Simonides in Relation
97
Simonides Thessalian Period
117
Simonides in the Persian Wars
147
Simonides in Italy and Sicily
211
Simonides Relations
247
Assessment of Stellas conclusions
274
Late Simonidean Epigrams
285
The Ancient Testimonia
307
Stellas treatment of the ancient
318
A possible modification of
330
Conclusions on Stellas Revised
339

Simonides in the Persian Wars
157
Thermopylae to Plataea
175

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