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Often, when I have been reading various portions of lyrical Greek, both in the course of private study and as a schoolmaster with a form, I have been impelled to doubt the validity of the correspondence, in strophic-antistrophic composition, between one long and two shorts. The examples of the correspondence so frequently appeared to me to be associated with readings either obviously corrupt or at any rate of great difficulty, and the correspondence itself seemed to be so distinct an exception to the prevailing laws of choric composition, that my suspicions became thoroughly aroused.
But my ordinary reading enabled me to come to no definite conclusion. A group of tragedies, or even a book of Pindaric odes, contains by itself insufficient data for such a purpose.
Consequently I determmed to go through Greek lyrical poetry as a whole in search of a solution of the problem. I began with Bacchylides (my notes on whom I have since revised in the light obtained from the study of other lyrics), and went on with Pindar. I then worked through half Aeschylus and all Sophocles. Up to this point, I seemed to find my doubt amply confirmed.
Next, I approached Euripides. Several plays of that author fell at once into line.
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Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book challenges the idea that there is a consistent correspondence between one long and two short syllables in the verse of the ancient Greek poet Pindar. The author presents numerous instances where this phenomenon, known as solutio, does not occur in Pindar's text. It is commonly believed that, when solutio does occur, it is because copyist errors have crept into the text. The author argues that this explanation is not tenable, and that solutio is not a legitimate element of Pindaric verse. The author's argument is based on a thorough examination of Pindar's extant work. He examines every instance of solutio in the text, and demonstrates that each one can be explained as a corruption of the original reading. The author's analysis reveals that many of the instances of solutio can be explained by simple transcriptional errors, while others are due to more complex corruptions of the text. The author concludes that solutio is not a legitimate element of Pindaric verse, and that the phenomenon can be explained by the corruption of the text. This argument has implications for our understanding of Pindar's work, and for the study of ancient Greek poetry more generally. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781331885603_0
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