Matthew Hosty

Batrachomyomachia (Battle of the Frogs and Mice)

Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new critical edition of the Batrachomyomachia (Battle of the Frogs and Mice) seeks to return the poem to the centre of scholarly attention, presenting a new Greek text alongside an English verse translation, along with a comprehensive introduction and a line-by-line commentary dealing with linguistic, stylistic, and thematic questions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 143mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780198849902
• ISBN-10: 0198849907
• Artikelnr.: 57793701

Autorenporträt

Matthew Hosty is a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford. He works on ancient Greek and Latin parody, particularly on the pseudo-Homeric Battle of the Frogs and Mice, as well as on Hellenistic epic and Greek textual criticism

Inhaltsangabe

Frontmatter
Abbreviations and Editions
Introduction
1. 'Beginning on my first page . . .'
2. Date and Authorship
3. Parody and Pastiche
4. Frogs and Mice
5. Language and Metre
6. Reception and Influence
7. Text and Transmission
BATPAXOMYOMAXIA
Sigla
Note on the translation
Text and translation
Commentary
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index