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Pindar and the cult of heroes / Bruno Currie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Currie, Bruno.
- Series:
- Oxford classical monographs.
- Oxford classical monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Laudatory poetry, Greek--History and criticism.
- Laudatory poetry, Greek.
- Odes, Greek--History and criticism.
- Odes, Greek.
- Athletics in literature.
- Heroes in literature.
- Games in literature.
- Greece--In literature.
- Greece.
- Pindar--Criticism and interpretation.
- Pindar.
- Pindar--Characters--Heroes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (504 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A radical new appraisal of 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), and identifies Pindar's victory odes as a crucial stage in this process.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Some themes in hero cult, Homer and Pindar
- pt. 2. Heroization in the fifth century BC
- pt. 3. Five odes of Pindar.
- Notes:
- First published in paperback 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-161516-1
- 1-283-22260-4
- 9786613222602
- 0-19-155719-6
- OCLC:
- 744618690
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