Lawrence M Kowerski
Biographic Data
| ID | 5719256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence M Kowerski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kowerski |
| SIGNATURE | KOWERSKI L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hunter College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Catullus as Simonides
This paper argues that fr. 11 W2 from the so-called new Simonides is among the many intertexts for Catullus 68. Simonides' fragmentary elegiacs commemorating those who fought in the Persian Wars offer a parallel for Catullus' inverted invocation and his engagement with Homer. This parallel comes into relief through an oblique recollection of the anecdotal tradition about Simonides. For the reader thinking about Simonides, this recollection equate…
A Competition in Praise
In the epilogue to Idyll 22, the hymn to the Dioscuri, Theocritus makes poetic claims concerning the reciprocity between poets and their laudandi. In making these claims, he compares himself with Homer, a comparison which has puzzled readers. This paper suggests that we can understand this comparison by recognizing how this epilogue engages with the elegiac poem by Simonides represented by fr. 11 W2, which belongs to the so-called new Simonides. …
Sadder Than Simonidean Tears
This paper offers a reading of Catullus 38 that focuses on the figures named in it, Cornificius and Simonides, rather than the undefined distress of the poet. By focusing on these two poets, I suggest that the poem is not a request for consolatory verses from Cornificius in the vein of Simonides, but for some verses from his Glaucus , an epyllion. I argue that the so-called new Simonides reveals Simonides' appropriateness as a model for epic-like…
Thucydides and Pindar
Reviewed by: Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinician Poetry Lawrence Kowerski Simon Hornblower . Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinician Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 454. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-924919-9. Simon Hornblower opens this book with an echo of Abraham Crowley's observation that the translator of Pindar is one madman translating another. For Hornblower, it…
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Thucydides and Pindar
Reviewed by: Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinician Poetry Lawrence Kowerski Simon Hornblower . Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinician Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xv, 454. $125.00. ISBN 0-19-924919-9. Simon Hornblower opens this book with an echo of Abraham Crowley's observation that the translator of Pindar is one madman translating another. For Hornblower, it…
A Competition in Praise
In the epilogue to Idyll 22, the hymn to the Dioscuri, Theocritus makes poetic claims concerning the reciprocity between poets and their laudandi. In making these claims, he compares himself with Homer, a comparison which has puzzled readers. This paper suggests that we can understand this comparison by recognizing how this epilogue engages with the elegiac poem by Simonides represented by fr. 11 W2, which belongs to the so-called new Simonides. …
Sadder Than Simonidean Tears
This paper offers a reading of Catullus 38 that focuses on the figures named in it, Cornificius and Simonides, rather than the undefined distress of the poet. By focusing on these two poets, I suggest that the poem is not a request for consolatory verses from Cornificius in the vein of Simonides, but for some verses from his Glaucus , an epyllion. I argue that the so-called new Simonides reveals Simonides' appropriateness as a model for epic-like…
Catullus as Simonides
This paper argues that fr. 11 W2 from the so-called new Simonides is among the many intertexts for Catullus 68. Simonides' fragmentary elegiacs commemorating those who fought in the Persian Wars offer a parallel for Catullus' inverted invocation and his engagement with Homer. This parallel comes into relief through an oblique recollection of the anecdotal tradition about Simonides. For the reader thinking about Simonides, this recollection equate…
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