Anacreon of Teos

Name: Anacreon of Teos
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780198860488
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Table of Contents:
Volume IGeneral Introduction1. Life2. Themes3. Models4. Performance5. Language and Style6. Metre7. Reception8. Fate of the Text9. Orthography of this Edition10. Presentation of the Fragments11. Excluded FragmentsBibliographyTestimoniaText and TranslationTexts of Papyri not Included in PMGTexts of PMG 346-407Texts of PMG 408-426Texts of PMG 427-505Texts of AdespotaTexts of Elegiac Fragments Volume IICommentaryCommentary on PMG 346Commentary on PMG 347-357Commentary on PMG 358-376Commentary on PMG 377-394Commentary on PMG 395-416Commentary on PMG 417-436Commentary on PMG 437-463Commentary on PMG 464-505Commentary on AdespotaCommentary on Elegiac FragmentsIndex

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"The exhaustive 600 page commentary of Volume Two reviews supplements to the fragments and tries to tease out contexts as well as commenting on style and meter, earlier sources, and later imitations; it will be the standard edition of this important and beguiling figure for a long time to come, and one hopes for an affordable paperback soon." -- Jenny Strauss Clay, Religious Studies Review

"In the battle against the ravages of time, B.'s Anacreontic commentary represents a worthy weapon. It is apparent from the preface that the focus of the book is on the commentary, which indeed occupies pp. 255-861 of the work." -- CAMILLO NERI, The Classical Review

"Readers will find in Bernsdorff's work ample spurs for their own explorations." -- Thomas Phillips, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"In this edition, consisting of a text and translation of all the major fragments and testimonia (volume I) and a detailed commentary (volume II), Hans Bernsdorff equips readers for their voyage into Anacreon's worlds with everything required for a philologically informed approach to his texts. The volumes are a major scholarly achievement, and will be consulted with profit by anyone interested in Greek lyric poetry." -- Tom Phillips, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

"Bernsdorff's longstanding engagement with Anacreon makes this a treasure-trove of insight, and his diligence and judgment in representing textual controversies ensure that it will be the standard edition of the poet for the foreseeable future." -- P. E. Ojennus, CHOICE

Biographical Note:
Hans Bernsdorff, Professor of Classics, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität

Professor Hans Bernsdorff is Professor of Classics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main.

Publisher Marketing:
Anacreon is one of the most important of the Greek archaic lyric poets and has enjoyed a rich reception in both ancient and modern Europe, from Horace in Rome to the so-called Anacreontic poets in modern Europe (among them Abraham Cowley and Robert Herrick in England, and the young Goethe in Germany). However, despite his importance within the classical canon, there has been no full-scale commentary on the fragments of Anacreon in recent decades (with the exception of a single commentary in modern Greek).

The two volumes seek to address this gap in scholarship by providing a detailed and up-to-date commentary on all the known fragments of Anacreon alongside a freshly edited text, critical apparatus, and a new translation. The commentary to reconstruct the context of the fragments, shedding light on Anacreon's relation to earlier poets and discussing a variety of aspects of his work, including language, style, narratological analysis, intertextuality, and performance. Close attention has been paid to Anacreon's elaborate poetic language and use of imagery, especially in the representation of paradoxical emotions: the analysis systematically applies the refined tools developed in recent studies on the language of archaic poetry in order to describe and explain these phenomena, while recent findings in the history of religion and classical archaeology have been brought to bear on his representation of the gods. Fresh interpretation of the papyrus fragments has been particularly fruitful as new material has come to light and fundamentally changed our perception of Anacreon: these show that besides familiar topics such as love, the symposium, and observations of everyday life, more unexpected themes such as the Demeter-cult numbered among his concerns and played a significant role in his poetry.

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