The poetics of imitation: Anacreon and the anacreontic tradition

Abstract

List of plates Acknowledgements Introduction: the anacreontic question 1. Origins: the role of Anacreon as model 2. Anacreontic imitators: the model revised 3. Reading the texts: a sterile abundance of words 4. The anacreontic anthology 5. The allusive text Conclusions: Byzantium and beyond Appendices: A. Repetition in the anacreontics B. Register of key anacreontic words C. A translation of the anacreontic poems Bibliography Index of passages cited Index.