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Pindar's poetry, patrons, and festivals : from archaic Greece to the Roman Empire / editors, Simon Hornblower and Catherine Morgan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pindar--Criticism and interpretation.
- Pindar.
- Bacchylides--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bacchylides.
- Laudatory poetry, Greek--History and criticism.
- Laudatory poetry, Greek.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (490 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Presents a collection of essays about the praise ('epinikian') poetry of the classical poets Pindar and Bacchylides. The social and physical, as well as the literary, background to these poems celebrating athletic victory is explored in light of the archaeological and sociological insights.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Simon Hornblower and Catherine Morgan
- The origins of the festivals, especially Delphi and the Pythia / John Davies
- Origins of the Olympics / Stephen Instone
- Pindar, athletes, and the early Greek statue habit / R.R.R. Smith
- Fame, memorial, and choral poetry : the origins of epinikian poetry : an historical study / Rosalind Thomas
- Epinikian eidography / N.J. Lowe
- Pindar's poetry as poetry : a literary commentary / Michael Silk
- Pindar, place, and performance / Christopher Carey
- Debating patronage : the cases of Argos and Corinth / Catherine Morgan
- Elite mobility in the West / Carla M. Antonaccio
- 'Dolphins in the sea' (Isthmian 9.7) : Pindar and the Aeginetans / Simon Hornblower
- Thessalian aristocracy and society in the age of the Epinikian / Maria Stamatopoulou
- The entire house is full of crowns : Hellenistic agones and the commemoration of victory / Riet van Bremen
- 'Kapetoleia Olympia' : Roman emperors and Greek agones / Tony Spawforth
- Conclusion : the prestige of the games / Mary Douglas.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-04409-0
- 1-281-15511-X
- 9786611155117
- 0-19-153798-5
- OCLC:
- 476244024
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