Anacreon of Teos
Oxford University Press
978-0-19-886048-8 (ISBN)
Anacreon is one of the most important of the Greek archaic lyric poets and has enjoyed a rich reception in both ancient and modern Europe, from Horace in Rome to the so-called Anacreontic poets in modern Europe (among them Abraham Cowley and Robert Herrick in England, and the young Goethe in Germany). However, despite his importance within the classical canon, there has been no full-scale commentary on the fragments of Anacreon in recent decades (with the exception of a single commentary in modern Greek).
The two volumes seek to address this gap in scholarship by providing a detailed and up-to-date commentary on all the known fragments of Anacreon alongside a freshly edited text, critical apparatus, and a new translation. The commentary to reconstruct the context of the fragments, shedding light on Anacreon's relation to earlier poets and discussing a variety of aspects of his work, including language, style, narratological analysis, intertextuality, and performance. Close attention has been paid to Anacreon's elaborate poetic language and use of imagery, especially in the representation of paradoxical emotions: the analysis systematically applies the refined tools developed in recent studies on the language of archaic poetry in order to describe and explain these phenomena, while recent findings in the history of religion and classical archaeology have been brought to bear on his representation of the gods. Fresh interpretation of the papyrus fragments has been particularly fruitful as new material has come to light and fundamentally changed our perception of Anacreon: these show that besides familiar topics such as love, the symposium, and observations of everyday life, more unexpected themes such as the Demeter-cult numbered among his concerns and played a significant role in his poetry.
Professor Hans Bernsdorff is Professor of Classics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main.
Volume I
General Introduction
1: Life
2: Themes
3: Models
4: Performance
5: Language and Style
6: Metre
7: Reception
8: Fate of the Text
9: Orthography of this Edition
10: Presentation of the Fragments
11: Excluded Fragments
Bibliography
Testimonia
Text and Translation
Texts of Papyri not Included in PMG
Texts of PMG 346-407
Texts of PMG 408-426
Texts of PMG 427-505
Texts of Adespota
Texts of Elegiac Fragments
Volume II
Commentary
Commentary on PMG 346
Commentary on PMG 347-357
Commentary on PMG 358-376
Commentary on PMG 377-394
Commentary on PMG 395-416
Commentary on PMG 417-436
Commentary on PMG 437-463
Commentary on PMG 464-505
Commentary on Adespota
Commentary on Elegiac Fragments
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 26.11.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | 3 B&W Illustrations |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 165 x 55 mm |
Gewicht | 1790 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-886048-X / 019886048X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-886048-8 / 9780198860488 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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