The New Simonides : Contexts of Praise and Desire.

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Part I -- Introduction -- Photographs of POxy 2327 and 3965 -- Fragments 1-22 W[sup(2)]: Text, Apparatus Criticus, and Translation -- Part II -- 1. The New Simonides: Toward a Commentary -- 2. "These Fragments We Have Shored against Our Ruin -- 3. The Genre of Plataea: Generic Unity in the New Simonides -- 4. The Proem of Simonides' Plataea Elegy and the Circumstances of Its Performance -- 5. A Bard of the Iron Age and His Auxiliary Muse -- 6. Heroic Historiography: Simonides and Herodotus on Plataea -- 7. Epic and Epiphanies: Herodotus and the "New Simonides -- 8. Paths to Heroization at Plataea -- 9. Lords of Hellas, Old Men of the Sea: The Occasion of Simonides' Elegy on Plataea -- 10. The New Simonides and Homer's Hemitheoi -- 11. Utopian and Erotic Fusion in a New Elegy by Simonides -- 12. To Sing or to Mourn? A Reappraisal of Simonides 22 W[Sup(2)] -- 13. "New Simonides" or Old Semonides? Second Thoughts on POxy 3965 fr.26 -- 14. Heroes, Descendants of Hemitheoi: The Proemium of Theocritus 17 and Simonides 11 W[Sup(2)] -- 15. The Poet Unleaved: Simonides and Callimachus -- 16. Simonides and Horace on the Death of Achilles -- 17. Simonides and Horace -- 18. "As Is the Generation of Leaves" in Homer, Simonides, Horace, and Stobaeus -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- H -- I -- L -- M -- P -- Q -- S -- T -- V -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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