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Reflections on Simonides' 'Plataia' Elegy (frr. 10—18 W2)

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Mayer P.

Antik Tanulmanyok (Studia Antiqua)

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2006

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vol. 50

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issue 1

5-18

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The 'communis opinio' classifies the 'Plataia'-Elegy of Simonides as a poem intended for performance at a public festival. Since the elegy speaks highly of Pausanias, the victorious commander of the battle at Plataea, the time of his political downfall in 478 B.C. was regarded by the scholarship as a 'terminus ante quem', until whch the poem could be composed and officially performed. This paper argues for the sympotical performance of the elegy, and by postulating an exclusive performance context of this kind, defers the closing date of the composition until the time of the poet's death in the first half of the 460's B.C. In case of a relatively late composition we have to take into account the possibility, that Simonides was reflecting on the death of Pausanias about 470 B.C. in the poem, drawing a parallel between the Spartan commander-politician and the figure of Achilles in the poem.

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Komizm słowny i sytuacyjny w Amores 1,11-12

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Zagórski M.

Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae

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2010

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vol. 20

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issue 1

85-93

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The article examines patterns of comedy in Ovid's Am. 1.11-12 showing that the character of Naso is in fact depicted as a comic iuvenis talking to his mistress's slave Nape, who plays the role of serva callida and that both poems contain elements of verbal as well as visual comedy.

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ŠPECIFIKÁ ROMANTICKÉHO ŽÁNRU DUMY V SLOVENSKOM KONTEXTE

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Somolayová Ľ.

Slovenská literatúra (Slovak Literature)

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2012

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vol. 59

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issue 2

112 – 121

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In her study, the author tries to characterize the „duma“ as a genre which is considered typical of Slovak Romanticism, however, it has – surprisingly - remained under researched to date. The „dumas“ by S. B. Hroboň and J. Král were juxtaposed with the genre invariant in Russian and Polish literatures. Originally a long epic form was transformed, probably under the influence of the Polish context, into a short lyric form with a reflective or elegiac tone in the Slovak cultural environment. Instead of the images of heroic battles, battles of ideologies or romantic heroes´ inner struggles are depicted. On the one hand important figures whose deeds should be remembered are celebrated, on the other hand historical failures, the incapability to take advantage of a historical situation for the nation´s benefit are lamented. When a great deed proves to be impossible or an attempted deed fails, what become dominant are messianic tendencies, calls for destruction and anticipation of a great historical change being a destiny or God´s plan fulfilled. Thus, the genre of „duma“ is modified in Slovak Romanticism as a blend of the elegy and the (never written) epos. The primary cause of sorrow and mourning is not a loss, though it is the romantic insufficiency, the absence of an ideal in the material world.

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1 Antik Tanulmanyok (Studia Antiqua)

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1 Zagórski M.

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Reflections on Simonides' 'Plataia' Elegy (frr. 10—18 W2)

Komizm słowny i sytuacyjny w Amores 1,11-12

ŠPECIFIKÁ ROMANTICKÉHO ŽÁNRU DUMY V SLOVENSKOM KONTEXTE