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Matro of Pitane and the Tradition of Epic Parody in the Fourth Century Bce: Text, Translation, and Commentary

Matro of Pitane and the Tradition of Epic Parody in the Fourth Century Bce: Text, Translation, and Commentary

Olson, S. Douglas
Sens, Alexander

Paperback

Series: Society for Classical Studies American Classical Studies, Book 44

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0788506153
ISBN13: 9780788506154
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: May 1 1999
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The fragments of Matro of Pitane (c. 300 BC) offer insights not only into the largely forgotten and obscure late-classical genre of epic parody, but also into 4th-century Athenian history, the role of food and dining in antiquity, and the history of the text of Homer and the reception of the Iliad and the Odyssey in the pre-Alexanderian period. Sens and Olson offer a new text of the 144 surviving lines of Matro's parodies based on a fresh examination of the manuscripts; a translation; a detailed philological, historical, and gastronomic commentary; and a lively introduction to the poet and his times.

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