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Pindar's >First Pythian Ode< - Text, Introduction and Commentary (Hardcover)
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Pindar's >First Pythian Ode< - Text, Introduction and Commentary (Hardcover)
Series: Untersuchungen zur Antiken Literatur und Geschichte
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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.
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