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Herodas: Mimiambs

Herodas: Mimiambs

Zanker, Graham

Paperback

Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0856688738
ISBN13: 9780856688737
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Aug 1 2009
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.80 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

Before the publication of the second-century AD papyrus containing eight and a fragmentary ninth of the Mimiambs of Herodas in 1891, Herodas was known only through approximately twenty lines which had survived in quotations found principally in Athenaios and Stobaios. Even after the publication of the papyrus and subsequent work on it, scarcely anything is known of their author. The scant evidence that has survived suggests that he lived in during the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphos (285-247 BC), on the island of Kos, and was a direct contemporary of the greatest of the Hellenistic poets, Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius. His Mimiambs are short humorous dramatic scenes written in verse, often bawdy, reflecting everyday life and dialect.

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