| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 201 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Mnemosyne supplements. Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature,
0169-8958 ;
v. 333
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Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 333.
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Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- A prosopography of Stesichoros -- The Geryon myth in the Archaic period -- Historical background -- Performance -- The geryoneis as a choral song -- Cult of Geryon -- Language and phonology -- Metre -- The papyri -- The terminus ad quem of physical texts for The geryoneis -- Order of fragments -- Geryoneis -- Note on the text -- Index criticorum -- Text -- Commentary -- Appendices -- Testimonia -- Additional sources -- Eastern parallels -- Plates -- Bibliography -- Editions -- Commentaries -- Select bibliography -- Tabula comparationis -- Indices. |
| Summary |
This monograph focuses solely on the Stesichoros's Geryoneis. The main feature to the book is its full-length commentary. As well as providing a detailed analysis on the poet's language and style, the song is considered in its wider religious context. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Text in Greek with introduction and commentary in English. |
| Subject |
Stesichorus -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Stesichorus. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Stesichorus. Gēryonēis.
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Gēryonēis (Stesichorus) |
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Lost literature -- Greece.
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Lost literature. |
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Greece. |
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Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri)
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Manuscripts, Greek (Papyri) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Stesichorus.
Gēryonēis.
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| Added Title |
Geryoneis |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Curtis, Paul, 1965- Stesichoros's Geryoneis. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004207677 (DLC) 2011023822 (OCoLC)732318553 |
| ISBN |
9789004214200 (electronic book) |
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9004214208 (electronic book) |
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9789004207677 |
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9004207678 |
| Standard No. |
9786613270740 |
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