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Simonides on the Persian Wars
A Study of the Elegiac Verses of the "New Simonides"
Series: Studies in Classics
This book considers what evidence the "new Simonides" fragments offer for Simonides' elegiac compositions on the Persian Wars. The current orthodoxy is that they represent three separate elegies on individual battles, one on Artemisium, one on Salamis, and one on Plataea. Kowerski evaluates what...
Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge