Reading the Victory OdePeter Agócs, Chris Carey, Richard Rawles Cambridge University Press, 9 ago 2012 - 409 pagine 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. |
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The lost stornian odes of Pindar | 28 |
Pindar and musical innovation | 58 |
Epinicians and patrons | 83 |
What happened later to the families of Pindaric | 93 |
CONTEXTS OF PERFORMANCE AND REPERFORMANCE | 111 |
Representations of cult in epinician poetry | 163 |
a comparison with | 173 |
reading Pindars Kcbuot | 191 |
communicative strategies in Pindar | 249 |
Image and World in epinician poetry | 277 |
I4 Metaphorical travel and ritual performance | 303 |
I Bacchylidean myths | 321 |
Reading Pindar | 347 |
Bibliography | 365 |
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