Anne Burnett shows us the art of Bacchylides in the context of
Greek lyric traditions. She discusses the beginnings of choral
poetry and the functions of the choral myth; she describes the
purposes of the victory song in particular and the practices of
Bacchylides and Pindar as they fulfilled their victory commissions.
In analyzing individual poems Burnett's approach is two-fold, for
each ode is seen as a choral performance reflecting archaic cult
practice, while it is also studied as the expression of a
particular poetic vision and sensibility. Thus the formal elements
of the Bacchylidean victory songs are recognized as the response of
a chorus which must give semi-religious praise to a noble athlete
or prize-winning prince in times of increasing democracy. At the
same time an artistry and an ethic peculiar to Bacchylides are
discovered in the manipulation of fictions and mythic
materials.
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