title: The Figure Poem Egg by Simias of Rhodes (AP 15, 27) and Metrical Terminology
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metadata.value: Ermolaeva, Elena L.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-01-30T14:37:56Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-01-30T14:37:56Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Ermolaeva E. L. The Figure Poem Egg by Simias of Rhodes (AP 15, 27) and Metrical Terminology. Philologia Classica 2017, 12(2), 122–129.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu20.2017.201
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9017
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article is about the figure poem Egg by Simias of Rhodes, a concrete poem known for its visual arrangement
  in the shape of an egg, extraordinary metrical composition, sophisticated paronomasia and puns
  on metrical termini technici. The question this article explores is what can be learned from Simias’s verses
  about the metrical terminology of the late 4th and early 3rd century BC. The poet himself gives instructions in
  lines 9–10 how his poem should be arranged for reading, with the lines increasing in length from one foot to
  ten. My suggestion is that Simias’s Egg, in the form of an extended pun, might indirectly provide an overview
  of some metrical terms that were in use during his time: foot, kolon, metron, rhythmus, etc. Simias’s use of the
  word κῶλα, in the so-called “dancing fawns” comparison (l. 13), is particularly sophisticated, alternating its
  connotation between that of ‘limb’, ‘foot, leg’ and ‘a metrical unit’. I propose a list of “metrical” words which
  Simias used directly or metaphorically and which occur later in Hephaestion’s Enchiridion as metrical terms.
  We possess neither the treatises on which Hephaestion built his Enchiridion nor the names of his direct
  predecessors. Metrical terminology proves to be quite conservative, and some terms, which Simias used in
  his Egg and Hephaestion in the Enchiridion, are still in use today as standard metrical terms. Almost all of
  these terms can be found in the Nomenclator Metricus written by Otto Schroeder (1929). The poem is full of
  allusions and obscure metaphors later typical of Hellenistic epigrammatic poetry, in particular, the poem’s
  sophisticated wordplay on metrical terminology.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 12; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Simias of Rhodes
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: figure poem Egg
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: paronomasia
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: technopaegnia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Hephaestion
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: metrical terminology
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: foot
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: kolon
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: metron
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: rhythmus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Figure Poem Egg by Simias of Rhodes (AP 15, 27) and Metrical Terminology
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metadata.value: Article
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