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Print Price: $300.00

Format:
Hardback
500 pp.
138 mm x 216 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199253197

Publication date:
May 2010

Imprint: OUP UK

Asclepiades of Samos

Epigrams and Fragments

Edited by Alexander Sens

This is the first commentary in English devoted exclusively to the surviving epigrams and fragments of Asclepiades of Samos, a Hellenistic poet who exerted great influence on the work of his contemporaries and helped shape the genre of literary epigram for many generations. The volume contains an extensive introduction, a new critical text and translation, and a full literary and philological commentary. Alexander Sens's main focus is on the way in which Asclepiades engages with the Greek literary tradition, but attention is also paid to his influence on later writers.

Readership : Scholars and students of classics, especially of Hellenistic poetry.

Introduction
1. Life and works
2. The development of Hellenistic epigram
3. Asclepiades and inscribed epigram
4. Erotic epigram and its generic background
5. Narrative voice and genre
6. Asclepiades and his contemporaries
7. Asclepiades at court
8. Language and style
9. Metre
10. The transmission of the text
Testimonia
Sigla
Text and Commentary

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Alexander Sens is Joseph Durkin SJ Professor of Classics at Georgetown University.

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Special Features

The first full commentary in English on the writings of this influential poet.
All the poems are translated.
Each epigram is accompanied by a short exegetical essay reflecting on Asclepiades' engagement with the literary tradition.