Antimachus of Colophon and the Position of Women in Greek Poetry

Antimachus of Colophon and the Position of Women in Greek Poetry - A fragment printed for the use of scholars

The author of the following pages met with his death in Switzerland on July 16th, 1895, in his twenty-sixth year. Had he lived to complete the whole work of which they form part, he might have recast it throughout; and some apology is, perhaps, needed for its appearance in the present form. Several scholars have, however, expressed their opinion that the material contained in the extant fragments might be useful to those engaged in similar studies, and they are accordingly published, in the hope that this may prove to be the case. From the authors papers it appears that his work was, if completed, to have been entitled Women in Greek Poetry: being an Enquiry into the Origin of the Romantic Element in Literature. It was to have contained three divisions, dealing respectively with (1) the position occupied by women in the Greek lyric and tragic poets, (2) the part played by women in Greek comedy, (3) the Alexandrian ideal of woman. The former of the two essays contained in this volume (Women in Greek Poetry) no doubt includes much that would have been incorporated in the first of these three divisions. At the same time, as it was, in all probability, written before the whole scheme was arranged, and was intended to be complete in itself, it contains allusions to certain subjects which would more naturally have fallen into the third, and would have received fuller treatment there, while several points which belong properly to the first division have not been treated on the scale which would finally have belonged to them. The second essay (Women in Greek Comedy) corresponds more nearly in subject to the authors matured plan, but had still less than the first[viii] essay the benefit of his final correction and revision. This much is said, not in order to deprecate criticism (a result which the author would have been the last to desire), but merely in explanation of the occasional repetitions, and possibly also inconsistencies, which are to be found in this volume. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 67573
Author: Benecke, E. F. M. (Edward Felix Mendelssohn)
Release Date: Mar 6, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: S. Sonnenschein
Publication Date: 1896
Publisher Country: UK