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(More customer reviews)This book is an indispensable item not only for Hellenists or those doing research in Greek Lyric poetry or Simonides, but for all interested in the questions raised by the new fragments, edited in 1992 by M. L. West in his (now out-of-print) Iambi et Elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum Cantati: editio altera aucta atque emendata.
It has only one flaw: it is a rather disorganized book, probably edited too quickly, some articles are grouped together which deal with the same subject, and by the page 100 one is already tired of hearing over and over again the same story about how the fragments came up from a pile of trash at the Egyptioan city of Oxyrrhyncus.
Nonetheless it is worth buying.
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Over the course of his life (550-460 BC), the Greek poet Simonides produced poetic work of every kind then extant. Unfortunately, Simonides' corpus has survived only in fragments, though classical scholars have been studying his work for generations. The 1992 discovery of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri revolutionized the study of Simonides, casting particular light on the epic of Plataea. This edited volume gathers the best of the recent research on Simonides' newly expanded oeuvre into a single collection that will be an important reference for scholars of Greek poetry.
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