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Paperback The Mimiambs of Herodas: Translated Into an English 'Choliambic' Metre with Literary-Historical Introductions and Notes Book
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ISBN: 1350066834

ISBN13: 9781350066830

The Mimiambs of Herodas: Translated Into an English 'Choliambic' Metre with Literary-Historical Introductions and Notes

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The third-century BC Greek poet Herodas had been all but forgotten until a papyrus of eight of his Mimiambs (plus fragments) turned up in the Egyptian desert at the end of the 19th century. They have since been translated into various modern languages and supplied with scholarly commentaries. This book is the first to attempt to reproduce in English Herodas' 'choliambic' or 'limping' metre (sic) - distinctive for its signatory reversed final foot,...

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