Anacreon of Teos: Testimonia and Fragments, vol. 2 (Commentary)

632 Pages·2020·3.907 MB·English

by  Hans Bernsdorff

ANACREON OF TEOS:
TESTIMONIA AND FRAGMENTS

Anacreon of Teos
Testimonia and Fragments
Edited and Translated with Introduction
and Commentary by
HANS BERNSDORFF
VOLUME II
Commentary
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Contents
List of Figures vii
VOLUME I
General Introduction 
§ . Life 
§ . Themes 
§ . Models 
§ . Performance 
§ . Language and Style 
§ . Metre 
§ . Reception 
§ . Fate of the Text 
§ . Orthography of this Edition 
§ . Presentation of the Fragments 
§ . Excluded Fragments 
List of Abbreviations 
Bibliography 
Testimonia 
Text and Translation 
Texts of Papyri not Included in PMG and SLG 105
Texts Included in PMG and SLG 159
Texts of Elegiac Fragments 249
VOLUME II
Commentary 
General Index 
Index of Greek and Latin Words Discussed 
Index of Passages Discussed 872

List of Figures
1. Anacreon (inscribed) with comasts, cup by Oltos, ARV 2, 62/86, of
520–510 BC, London Brit. Mus. E 18 (1836,0224.145). Illustration from
Jahn, O., Über Darstellungen griechischer Dichter auf Vasenbildern.
Leipzig 1861, Plate 3. 200
2. Portrait statue of Anacreon, Roman marble copy after a Greek bronze
original by Phidias (c. 440 BC). Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek,
Inv. 491. 212
. P.Oxy.  fr.  col. i. (infrared). Courtesy of The Egypt Exploration
Society and the University of Oxford Imaging Papyri Project.
© The Egypt Exploration Society. Protected by UK copyright law:
further reproduction without the permission of The Egypt
Exploration Society is strictly prohibited. 
. The sanctuary of Artemis Leucophryena near Magnesia
on the Maeander. K.-H. Engemann. 387

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