Theognis’ Unoriginal Didactic Failure

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_6527
dc.contributor.author	Spelman Henry
dc.title	Theognis’ Unoriginal Didactic Failure
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Section 1 argues that Theognis embodies a robust conception of literary authorship and that his authorial unoriginality is inextricable from his moral authority. Section 2 interprets Theognis’ failure to instruct Cyrnus as integral to his didactic message and as part of a strategy whereby the poet’s relationship to his addressee prefigures his relationship to larger audiences. An appendix provides a statistical analysis of the citation history of the Theognidea and argues that at some point after the classical period an original collection was supplanted by something like the strange text that we read today.
dc.relation.ispartof	Antiquity Studies
dc.relation.ispartof	Filologia e letteratura
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-12-16
dc.dateAccepted	2021-06-23
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-05-17
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-549-0/theognis-unoriginal-didactic-failure/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-548-3/007
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8828
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9344
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-549-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-548-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Authorship
dc.subject	Authorship
dc.subject	Didactic poetry
dc.subject	Didactic poetry
dc.subject	Elegy
dc.subject	Elegy
dc.subject	Textual history
dc.subject	Textual history
dc.subject	Theognis
dc.subject	Theognis

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Theognis’ Unoriginal Didactic Failure

Henry Spelman University of Oxford, UK

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Section 1 argues that Theognis embodies a robust conception of literary authorship and that his authorial unoriginality is inextricable from his moral authority. Section 2 interprets Theognis’ failure to instruct Cyrnus as integral to his didactic message and as part of a strategy whereby the poet’s relationship to his addressee prefigures his relationship to larger audiences. An appendix provides a statistical analysis of the citation history of the Theognidea and argues that at some point after the classical period an original collection was supplanted by something like the strange text that we read today.

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Dec. 16, 2021

Accepted

June 23, 2021

Submitted

May 17, 2021

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978-88-6969-549-0

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978-88-6969-548-3

Keywords: Authorship • Theognis • Textual history • Elegy • Didactic poetry

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