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Of Golden Manes and Silvery Faces - The Partheneion 1 of Alcman (Hardcover)
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Of Golden Manes and Silvery Faces - The Partheneion 1 of Alcman (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
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Ever since the papyrus containing Alcman's Partheneion was first
published in 1863, classicists have been faced with one of the
hardest riddles of their scholarship. Although the language was
more or less clear, the meaning of many verses and the character of
the poem remained elusive. Therefore it is not surprising that
during the century and a half that has elapsed since then, a large
bibliography has piled up, disproportionate to the mere 101
surviving verses of the enigmatic poem. This book presents a
verse-by-verse commentary to the text with a number of new textual
and interpretative proposals based on a detailed inspection of the
papyrus. Numerous new readings are made in particular to the
Scholia to the Partheneion, greatly elucidating not only questions
of interpretation but also problems concerning the composition of
the chorus, the number of its members, the identity of the
protagonist girls, the social context, as well as questions of
performance. The girlish story that lurks in the background but
actually forms the framework of the poem now becomes more clear,
revealing at the same time the didactic objective of the poet. A
new edition of the Partheneion and the Scholia is offered at the
end, together with a new translation of the poem.
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