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Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals - From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire (Hardcover)
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Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals - From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire (Hardcover)
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Ancient sport made a huge if indirect contribution to the
literature of ancient Greece, since some sixty poems by Pindar and
Bacchylides ("epinikian odes"), written to commemorate victories,
survive from the Classical period. This book is a collection of
essays about that literature, and about the social and physical
context for which it was written. The editors assembled an
internationally distinguished team of speakers for the original
2002 seminar series held in London, and these papers form the
backbone of the book. But to ensure coherence and comprehensive
coverage, they have commissioned three further papers, and have
themselves written a long thematic Introduction. The result is a
stellar team of authors, and a book which looks at an important
literary phenomenon in light of the latest archaeological and
sociological insights, as well as evaluating the poetry both as
poetry and as a performance genre with distinctive characteristics.
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