Chapter Four. Solon’s Songs, Our Solonian Poems, And The Theognidea

This chapter focuses on the question of the transmission of the poems and to a lesser degree on the question of Solon's first-person poetic persona It examines the diverse distichs and poems that appear in the Theognidea and whose attribution to named authors cast doubts on the oftern assumed priority of the Theognidea. The chapter is thus concerned with the question of the so-called (Solonian and non-Solonian doublets), though not with the kind of conceptual borrowing by which Theognis reformulates ideas found in the ideological system of the mesonor 'middle'. A separate but related question to the problem of doublets in the Theognidea is the panhellenism of archaic poetry.Keywords: Solonian doublets; Solonian Poems; Theognidea

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