Reading the victory ode / edited by Péter Agocs, Chris Carey And Richard Rawles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Agócs, Peter, editor.

Carey, Christopher (Classicist), editor.

Rawles, Richard, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Odes, Greek--History and criticism.

Odes, Greek.

Laudatory poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Laudatory poetry, Greek.

War poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

War poetry, Greek.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiv, 409 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been substantial. Pindar, Bacchylides and others are now among the most widely read Greek authors precisely because of their significance for the literary development of poetry between Homer and tragedy and their historical involvement in promoting Greek rulers. Their influence was so great that it ultimately helped to define the European notion of lyric from the Renaissance onwards. This collection of essays by international experts examines the victory ode from a range of angles: its genesis and evolution, the nature of the commissioning process, the patrons, context of performance and re-performance, and the poetics of the victory ode and its exponents. From these different perspectives the contributors offer both a panoramic view of the genre and an insight into the modern research positions on this complex and fascinating subject.

Contents:

Early epinician: Ibycus and Simonides / Richard Rawles

The lost Isthmian odes of Pindar / Giovan Battista D'Alessio

Epinician sounds: Pindar and musical innovation / Lucia Prauscello

Epinicians and 'patrons' / Ewen Bowie

What happened later to the families of Pindaric patrons- and to epinician poetry? / Simon Hornblower

Performance, re-performance and Pindar's audiences / A.D. Morrison

Performance and re-performance: the Siphnian treasury evoked (Pindar's Pythian 6, Olympian 2 and Isthmian 2) / Lucia Athanassaki

Representations of cult in epinician poetry / Franco Ferrari

Epinician and the symposion: a comparison with the enkomia / Felix Budelmann

Performance and genre: reading Pindar's [characters omitted] / Peter Agócs

Pindar's 'difficulty' and the performance of epinician poetry: some suggestions from ethnography / Rosalind Thomas

Poet and public: communicative strategies in Pindar and Bacchylides / Glenn W. Most

Image and world in epinician poetry / G.O Hutchinson

Metaphorical travel and ritual performance in epinician poetry / Claude Calame (translated by Lucy Whitelay)

Bacchylidean myths / David Fearn

Reading Pindar / Michael Silk.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-53985-X

1-139-88736-X

1-283-61035-3

1-139-52704-5

9786613922809

1-139-01762-4

1-139-52584-0

1-139-53170-0

1-139-53051-8

1-139-52823-8

OCLC:

810531594