This is the first new edition for more than a decade of the fragments of Timotheus of Miletus, one of the most important Greek poets of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. It includes a comprehensive commentary (the fullest available) and an extensive introduction.
Introduction A.I. Timotheus of MiletusLife B. The Poems A.II. GenreThe Dithyramb B. The Nome A.III. Music and StyleMusic B. Style A.IV. LanguageDialect B. Phonology C. Morphology A.V. Metre and ProsodyMetre B. Prosody A.VI. The PapyrusThe Archaeological Context B. Description VII. Timotheus in Antiquity Sigla Text Commentary Indexes
J.H. Hordern is Research Fellow in the Department of Classics, University College, Dublin