Mimnermus: Elegies

Auteur

Dimitrios Kanellakis is Early Career Fellow, Centre for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University and Adjunct Lecturer in Ancient Greek, University of Cyprus. He is author of Aristophanes and the Poetics of Surprise (De Gruyter 2020), editor of Pathologies of Love in Classical Literature (De Gruyter 2021) and co-editor of Ancient Greek Comedy: Genre-Texts-Reception (De Gruyter 2020).

Texte du rabat

This literary commentary - the first full-scale scholarly commentary on the seventh-century BCE Greek poet Mimnermus in thirty years - brings this unjustly understudied archaic elegist back to the forefront of research, with analysis of language, meaning, audience, narrative structure and reception. With Greek text, introduction, translation and commentary.