Theognis of Megara : poetry and the polis ; edited by Thomas J. Figueira and Gregory Nagy.

Other Authors: Figueira, Thomas J., Nagy, Gregory
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1985
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Table of Contents:
  • Theognis and the sources for the history of archaic Megara / by Louis A. Okin
  • Theognis and Megara : a poetʹs vision of his city / by Gregory Nagy
  • The seal of Theognis : the politics of authorship in archaic Greece / by Andrew L. Ford
  • The genre of Theognidean poetry / by Lowell Edmunds
  • The Theognidea and Megarian society / by Thomas J. Figueira
  • Opposites, reversals and ambiguities : the unsettled world of Theognis / by Veda Cobb-Stevens
  • Symposium and the polis / by Daniel B. Levine
  • Eros and the polis in Theognis book II / by John M. Lewis
  • Pistos philos hetairos / by Walter Donlan
  • Appendix: Language, meter and sense in Theognis (the role of agathos ʹnoble, goodʹ) / by Nathan A. Greenberg
  • Chronological table: Archaic Megara, 800-500 B.C. / by Thomas J. Figueira.