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Archilochus: The Poems - Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)
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Archilochus: The Poems - Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)
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In antiquity Archilochus of Paros was considered a poet rivalled
only by Homer and Hesiod, yet he has been relatively neglected by
modern scholarship. This is largely due to the fragmentary state of
his surviving poetry, though our knowledge has expanded
significantly since the middle of the twentieth century as new
papyrological finds continue to augment the corpus and our
understanding of the poet and his work evolves. This volume is the
first ever complete commentary on Archilochus, filling a
substantial gap in scholarship on archaic Greek poetry and playing
an important and timely role in re-establishing him as a major
author and in locating the recent discoveries in the broader
context of his oeuvre. Presenting the fragmentary texts alongside
brand new translations, the volume also contains a comprehensive
introduction offering an accessible guide to Archilochus' work and
context, and a detailed commentary providing textual, literary, and
historical analysis of all of his surviving poetry and discussing
broader questions of performance and genre in early Greek poetic
culture. The scope and depth of the analysis not only highlights
the diversity and sophistication of Archilochus' work, but also
sheds new light on our understanding of Greek iambus and elegy,
while his influence on later writers means that the commentary will
be of significance to scholars and students of Hellenistic and
Roman literature, and the later lyric tradition, as well as archaic
and classical Greek literature.
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