Pindar Isthmian 7
Pindar Isthmian 7

Author: Young

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-06-22

Total Pages: 63

ISBN-13: 9004327223

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Preliminary Material /David C. Young -- Introduction /David C. Young -- The supposed date and historical circumstances /David C. Young -- An analysis /David C. Young -- Myth and exempla /David C. Young -- Bibliographical note /David C. Young -- A thematic concordance /David C. Young -- Indices /David C. Young.

The Complete Odes
The Complete Odes

Author: Pindar

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2007-07-12

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 0192805533

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The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. The Odes contain versions of some of the best known Greek myths and are also a valuable source for Greek religion and ethics. Verity's lucid translations are complemented by insights into competition, myth, and meaning. - ;'we can speak of no greater contest than Olympia' The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories of athletes competing in foot races, horse races, boxing, wrestling, all-in fighting and the pentathlon, and his Odes are fascinating not only for their poetic qualities, but for what they tell us about the Games. Pindar praises the victor by comparing him to mythical heroes and the gods, but also reminds the athlete of his human limitations. The Odes contain versions of some of the best known Greek myths, such as Jason and the Argonauts, and Perseus and Medusa, and are a valuable source for Greek religion and ethics. Pindar's startling use of language - striking metaphors, bold syntax, enigmatic expressions - makes reading his poetry a uniquely rewarding experience. Anthony Verity's lucid translations are complemented by an introduction and notes that provide insight into competition, myth, and meaning. -

Pindar and the Cult of Heroes
Pindar and the Cult of Heroes

Author: Bruno Currie

Publisher: Oxford Classical Monographs

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780199277247

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Pindar and the Cult of Heroes takes a radical new look at the veneration and cult of heroic men, living and dead, in ancient Greece. Bruno Currie finds the roots of the Hellenistic ruler cult, and hence Roman emperor cult, in the 5th century BC (and earlier). Pindar's victory odes represent a crucial stage in this process. Currie also offers a major re-evaluation of the epinician genre and extensive studies of five of Pindar's odes.

Pindaric Metre: The 'Other Half'
Pindaric Metre: The 'Other Half'

Author: Kiichiro Itsumi

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 0199229619

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Pindar is one of the greatest Greek poets, but while the metre of half of his poems is easy to grasp, that of the other half has so far remained obscure. Kiichiro Itsumi presents a new account of their metre. He separates the metre into two types and identifies a series of precise entities from which the verses are made, in this way imposing a new clarity and discipline on what had previously seemed a much vaguer process. Itsumi's analyses of individual poems include a discussion ofstanzaic structure, of textual problems, and of particular lines in the stanza and their exploitation within the text. These analyses will be an invaluable resource for serious scholars of Pindar.

Pindar. the Olympian and Pythian Odes
Pindar. the Olympian and Pythian Odes

Author: Pindar Pindar

Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press

Published: 2018-11-09

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 9780353009011

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Studies in the Reception of Pindar in Ptolemaic Poetry
Studies in the Reception of Pindar in Ptolemaic Poetry

Author: Alexandros Kampakoglou

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-08-05

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 3110648741

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Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in the influence of archaic lyric poetry on Hellenistic poets. However, no study has yet examined the reception of Pindar, the most prominent of the lyric poets, in the poetry of this period. This monograph is the first book to offer a systematic examination of the evidence for the reception of Pindar in the works of Callimachus of Cyrene, Theocritus of Syracuse, Apollonius of Rhodes and Posidippus of Pella. Through a series of case studies, it argues that Pindaric poetry exercised a considerable influence on a variety of Hellenistic genres: epinician elegies and epigrams, hymns, encomia, and epic poetry. For the poets active at the courts of the first three Ptolemies, Pindar's poetry represented praise discourse in its most successful configuration. Imitating aspects of it, they lent their support to the ideological apparatus of Greco-Egyptian kingship, shaped the literary profile of Pindar for future generations of readers, and defined their own role and place in Greek literary history. The discussion offered in this book suggests new insights into aspects of literary tradition, Ptolemaic patronage, and Hellenistic poetics, placing Pindar's work at the very heart of an intricate nexus of political and poetic correspondences.