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Pindar (Hardcover)
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Pindar (Hardcover)
Series: Understanding Classics
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The 6th/5th century bce Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar
was the most celebrated lyricist of antiquity. His famous victory
odes offer a paean to the heroic athlete, and are an attempt to
encapsulate, through choral songs of acclamation, the glory of the
sportsman's moment of triumph at a variety of Panhellenic festivals
including the Olympic Games. His other poems, collected in thirteen
books, are largely lost or fragmentary - except for the Paeans -
but were devoted to the praise of gods and heroes. Yet Pindar,
though still respected, is now considered a difficult poet, and is
sometimes dismissed as a reactionary. In this wideranging
introduction, Richard Stoneman shows that Pindar's works, even
where they seem obscure, follow a logic of their own and reward
further study. An unmatched craftsman with words, and witness to a
profoundly religious sensibility, he is a poet who takes modern
readers to the heart of Greek ideas about the gods, fleeting human
achievement and mortality. Theauthor examines questions of
performance and genre; patronage; imagery; and reception, from
Horace to the twentieth century.
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