Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
The Mimiambs and the Question of Performance
Herodas' Metre
Herodas' Dialect

Herodas Mimiambs
Mimiambs1
Characters and characterisation
Mimiambs 1 and Theokritos' Idylls 2, 14 and 15
Mimiambs 2
The characterisation of Battaros
Mimiambs 3
Characters and interactions in Mimiambs 3 Mimiambs 4 Constructing the scene
Constructing the works of art in the scene
Mimiambs 4 and Hellenistic art criticism
Mimiambs 5
Characters and characterisation
Setting
Mimiambs 6
Characters and characterisation
The objectivity of Herodas
Mimiambs 7
Metro and kerdon
Kerdon's salesmanship
Mimiambs 8
Mimiambs 8 as a statement of Herodas' literary program
The Fragments

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