Bacchylides: The Poems and Fragments (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108008984 ISBN 13: 9781108008983

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Sir Richard Jebb's edition of Bacchylides' Odes, published in 1905, remains an authoritative work today. Jebb (1841–1905) was the most distinguished classicist of his generation, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and University Orator, subsequently Professor of Greek at Glasgow University and finally Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, and a Member of Parliament for the University. This edition contains an introductory essay describing the poet's life, his literary context and his influence on later writers, especially Pindar and Horace. It also includes a section on metre. The text itself is given with a parallel English translation, textual collation and explanatory notes. An appendix discusses conjectural reconstructions of the odes, and there is a vocabulary list and index.

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Book Description

Sir Richard Jebb's edition of Bacchylides' Odes, published in 1905, remains an authoritative work today. This edition contains an introductory essay and a section on metre. The text itself is given with a parallel English translation, textual collation and explanatory notes, and there is a vocabulary list and index.

About the Author

Herwig Maehler is Emeritus Professor of Papyrology at the Department of Greek and Latin, University College London. His publications include Die Auffassung des Dichterberufs im fruhen Griechentum bis zur Zeit Pindars (1963), Die Handschriften der S. Jacobi-Kirche Hamburg (1967), Urkunden romischer Zeit (1968), Papyri aus Hermupolis (1974), Die Lieder des Bakchylides (2 vols.) (1982, 1997); Greek Bookhands of the Early Byzantine Period (with G. Cavallo) 1987; editions of Bacchylides and Pindar.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108008984
• ISBN 13: 9781108008983
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 554
• Editor: Jebb Richard Claverhouse