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Herodas has seen a resurgence in scholarly interest in recent years. The question how his Mimiambs were performed, for example, fits in fairly and squarely with the current and exciting study of performance in Classical literature in general. On the other hand, the poems’ combination of realistic and even vulgar subject-matter with sophisticated and self-conscious literariness – and the humour that arises out of the fusion – has perhaps a more perennial fascination.
Part of the challenge in writing this commentary has been to communicate the typically Hellenistic humour of the Mimiambs to the diverse audience that the Aris & Phillips series aims to address. These are, broadly speaking, students of literature who have no knowledge of Greek, those whose Greek is nascent to fairly advanced, and those who would like original contributions to our thinking about Herodas’ poetry. To the more advanced reader I might seem to have been over-generous in the help I have offered, particularly in my referencing of works with which a less advanced student will not be familiar; but what author cannot feel for the young scholar who has wasted an honest morning’s work puzzling over what is meant by, for example, ‘AB 298.5’ without further help being given? So I have used the Harvard system’s ‘Bekker (1814) 298.5’, by which the student can easily get the full details of the reference by looking up Bekker’s Anecdota Graeca in the Bibliography.
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