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Simonides the Poet
Language: en
Pages: 323
Authors: Richard Rawles
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Simonides is tantalising and enigmatic, known both from fragments and from an extensive tradition of anecdotes. This monograph, the first in English for a gener
Economy of the Unlost
Language: en
Pages: 156
Authors: Anne Carson
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-04-11 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point, Anne
The New Simonides
Language: en
Pages: 325
Authors: Deborah Boedeker
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-06-14 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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
The Praise Singer
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Mary Renault
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-04-08 - Publisher: Vintage

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In the story of the great lyric poet Simonides, Mary Renault brings alive a time in Greece when tyrants kept an unsteady rule and poetry, music, and royal patro
Stesichorus
Language: en
Pages: 706
Authors: Stesichorus
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Stesichorus' lyric poetry vividly recreates the most dramatic episodes of Greek myth: the labours of Heracles, the sack of Troy, the vengeance of Orestes, and m