Pindar's ›First Pythian Ode‹ : Text, Introduction and Commentary / Almut Fries.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Fries, Almut, Author.

Contributor:

De Gruyter.

Series:

Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte , 1862-1112 ; 151

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--History--Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C.

Greece.

Hieron I. von Syrakus.

Siegesode.

Sizilien.

Local Subjects:

Hieron I. von Syrakus.

Siegesode.

Sizilien.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIV, 252 pages)

Contained In:

De Gruyter Plus.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

text file PDF

Summary:

This is the first large-scale edition with introduction and commentary of Pindar's First Pythian Ode. Composed for Hieron of Syracuse to mark his Delphic chariot victory of 470 BC and his recent foundation of the city of Aetna, the poem is not only a literary masterpiece, but also of central importance for our understanding of Greek history and culture in the early fifth century BC. As our only contemporary written source for the Sicilian Wars against the Carthaginians and Etruscans, it stands on a level with Simonides' Plataea Elegy and Aeschylus' Persians on the Persian Wars. This is a period where epoch-making Greek victories in the east and west were celebrated by the greatest poets in a way that reveals much about the atmosphere in which their works were created and received. The book offers a new edition of the text with a detailed introduction and commentary, which discuss textual problems, language, metre and transmission as well as a variety of literary questions, the historical background and the early performance and reception history of the ode. It will be of interest to scholars and students of archaic and classical Greek poetry and of Greek history of the early fifth century BC.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

I Structure and Themes

II Pythian 1 in Context

III Performance Contexts

IV Metre

V The Transmission of the Text

VI The Present Edition

Text and Critical Apparatus

Conspectus Siglorum

Πινδάρου Ἱέρωνι Αἰτναίῳ ἅρματι

Commentary

Bibliography

Indexes

Notes:

Habil Universität Göttingen 2020.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023)

ISBN:

9783111128368

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.