Reading the Victory Ode

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Peter 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
Index of Greektechnical terrns
395
General index
401

Pindars difficulty and the performance of epinician
224

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Informazioni sull'autore (2012)

Peter Agócs is an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. He spent the last four years as a Junior Research Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge. Chris Carey is Professor of Greek at University College London. Richard Rawles is a lecturer in Classics in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.

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