Matro of Pitane and the Tradition of Epic Parody in the Fourth Century BCE : Text, Translation, and Commentary
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0788506153
ISBN-13
9780788506154
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 14th, 2003
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
272 grams
Dimensions
15.60 x 22.90 x 1.10 cms
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Sens and Olson offer a new text of the 144 surviving lines of the parodies of Matro of Pitane (c. 300 BC) 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.
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-Alexandrian 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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