EAN: 9783110291827

OF GOLDEN MANES AND SILVERY FACES - KYRIAKOS TS...

Ever since the papyrus containing Alcman s Partheneion was first published in 1863  classicists
have been faced with one of the hardest riddles of their scholarship. Although the language was
more or less clear  the meaning of many verses and the character of the poem remained elusive.
Therefore it is not surprising that during the century and a half that has elapsed since then 
a large bibliography has piled up  disproportionate to the mere 101 surviving verses of the
enigmatic poem. This book presents a verse-by-verse commentary to the text with a number of new
textual and interpretative proposals based on a detailed inspection of the papyrus. Numerous
new readings are made in particular to the Scholia to the Partheneion  greatly elucidating not
only questions of interpretation but also problems concerning the composition of the chorus 
the number of its members  the identity of the protagonist girls  the social context  as well
as questions of performance. The girlish story that lurks in the background but actually forms
the framework of the poem now becomes more clear  revealing at the same time the didactic
objective of the poet. A new edition of the Partheneion and the Scholia is offered at the end 
together with a new translation of the poem.

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