Simonides: A Historical StudyBolchazy-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 |
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