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Herodas - The Mime and Fragments (Paperback)
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Herodas - The Mime and Fragments (Paperback)
Series: BCP Classic Commentary S.
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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 AlexandriaThe
introduction places the poems in their literary context and
discusses the papyrus which provides the basis of our text. All the
poems and fragments are translated and the annotation adduces a
mass of parallel material to illuminate Herodas' meaning and
literary intentions.
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