{"product_id":"mimnermus-elegies-paperback","title":"Mimnermus: Elegies - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDimitrios Kanellakis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seventh-century BCE Greek poet Mimnermus of Smyrna, whom C. M. Bowra called \"the most accomplished and the most musical\" of the early elegists, has not been as lucky as other poets of his era. Not updated by any recent papyrological discoveries (unlike e.g. Simonides, Archilochus or Sappho), his corpus remains slim, while the last full-scale commentary on his poems is now thirty years old. Hence the aim of this book is straightforward: to bring this unjustly understudied poet back to the forefront of research, and to advocate that, however exciting a papyrological discovery may be, one does not need new fragments to rediscover a classical author, insofar as \"every rereading of a classic is as much a voyage of discovery as the first reading\" (I. Calvino). This edition introduces a new Mimnermus, whose melancholy, it is argued against the common assumption, is only a generic pretext; behind that elegiac facade lurks a very playful poet, not just verbally and metrically spirited, but also ironical and risqué on occasions. The Introduction and Commentary analyze figurative language, alternative meanings, authorial markers, implied audience, performative clues, program of composition, narrative structure, intertextuality, and reception.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDimitrios Kanellakis is Early Career Fellow, Centre for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University and Adjunct Lecturer in Ancient Greek, University of Cyprus. He is author of \u003cem\u003eAristophanes and the Poetics of Surprise\u003c\/em\u003e (De Gruyter 2020), editor of \u003cem\u003ePathologies of Love in Classical Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (De Gruyter 2021) and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eAncient Greek Comedy: Genre-Texts-Reception \u003c\/em\u003e(De Gruyter 2020).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 06, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45689581404262,"sku":"9781835537657","price":100.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/BoCL1xDsie9781835537657.webp?v=1780505429","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/mimnermus-elegies-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}