Physical description: (xii, 312 pages) : illustrations. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and indexes. Contents:Fragments 1-22 W� : text, apparatus criticus, and translation / David Sider — The new Simonides : toward a commentary / Ian Rutherford — “These fragments we have shored against our ruin” / Peter Parsons — The genre of Plataea : generic unity in the new Simonides / Dirk Obbink — The proem of Simonides’ Plataea elegy and the circumstances of its performance / Antonio Aloni — A bard of the Iron Age and his auxiliary muse / Eva Stehle — Heroic historiography : Simonides and Herodotus on Plataea / Deborah Boedeker — Epic and epiphanies : Herodotus and the “new Simonides” / Simon Hornblower — Paths to heroization at Plataea / Deborah Boedeker — Lords o.