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Pindar and the Sublime - Greek Myth, Reception, and Lyric Experience (Paperback)
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Pindar and the Sublime - Greek Myth, Reception, and Lyric Experience (Paperback)
Series: New Directions in Classics
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Pindar-the 'Theban eagle', as Thomas Gray famously called him-has
often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into
the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of
eternity. In this much-anticipated new study, Robert Fowler asks in
what ways the concept of the sublime can still guide a reading of
the greatest of the Greek lyric poets. Working with ancient and
modern treatments of the topic, especially the poetry and writings
of Friedrich Hoelderlin (1770-1843), arguably Pindar's greatest
modern reader, he develops the case for an aesthetic appreciation
of Pindar's odes as literature. Building on recent trends in
criticism, he shifts the focus away from the first performance and
the orality of Greek culture to reception and the experience of
Pindar's odes as text. This change of emphasis yields a fresh
discussion of many facets of Pindar's astonishing art, including
the relation of the poems to their occasions, performativity, the
poet's persona, his imagery, and his myths. Consideration of
Pindar's views on divinity, transcendence, time, and the limits of
language reveals him to be not only a great writer but a great
thinker.
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