Herodas: Mimes and Fragments (Classic Commentaries) - Softcover

Knox, A.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853996246 ISBN 13: 9781853996245

Verlag: Bristol Classical Press, 2001

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Book by Knox AD Headlam Walter

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Reseña del editor:

The surviving short mimes of Hero(n)das share much of their aims and background with the Alexandrian poetry of the first half of the third century BC, especially that of Callimachus and Theocritus. They are at once acutely aware of their literary ancestry, their choliambic metre based on archaic Hipponax, their genre on the traditions of Sophron, and their characters largely on the stock of New Comedy. They are literary and learned pieces but at the same time purport to present 'real life', particularly its seamier side - the bawd, the brothel-keeper, the purveyor of leather dildos. The mimes, comparable with but also interestingly different from the hexametre town mimes of Theocritus (and the Iamboi of Callimachus), present comic vignettes of life in Cos and Alexandria.

This is the exhaustive work of Walter Headlam, edited and expanded after his death by A.D. Knox of King's College, Cambridge, originally published in 1922. It remains the most detailed scholarly commentary in existence.

Biografía del autor:

A.D. Knox met Walter Headlam at Kings College Cambridge, and took up Headlam's Fellowship on his death; their joint work is the exhaustive Herodas: Mimes and Fragments. He worked in Bletchley breaking Italian and German cipher codes during the Second World War.

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• Verlag: Bristol Classical Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1853996246
• ISBN 13: 9781853996245
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 532