Pindar: 'Pythian Eleven'

Pindar: 'Pythian Eleven'
Author: P. J. Finglass
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2007-12-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139469118

Pindar's Pythian Eleven is a miniature masterpiece: a poem praising a young athlete which presents a vivid and important account of the Agamemnon legend. Yet it contains so many difficulties (of text, metre, dating and interpretation) that even Wilamowitz regarded it as one of Pindar's most obscure poems. This 2007 edition (the first full-scale treatment that the poem had ever received) provides answers to the problems that have prevented proper appreciation of the work. In addition to the full introduction and commentary, the book also has a text based on re-examination of the manuscripts, detailed metrical discussion, and a translation.

Pindar: 'Pythian Eleven'

Pindar: 'Pythian Eleven'
Author: P. J. Finglass
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-06-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521289900

Pindar's Pythian Eleven is a miniature masterpiece: a poem praising a young athlete which presents a vivid and important account of the Agamemnon legend. Yet it contains so many difficulties (of text, metre, dating and interpretation) that even Wilamowitz regarded it as one of Pindar's most obscure poems. This 2007 edition (the first full-scale treatment that the poem had ever received) provides answers to the problems that have prevented proper appreciation of the work. In addition to the full introduction and commentary, the book also has a text based on re-examination of the manuscripts, detailed metrical discussion, and a translation.

The Complete Odes

The Complete Odes
Author: Pindar
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007-07-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192805533

The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. The Odes contain versions of some of the best known Greek myths and are also a valuable source for Greek religion and ethics. Verity's lucid translations are complemented by insights into competition, myth, and meaning. - ;'we can speak of no greater contest than Olympia' The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories of athletes competing in foot races, horse races, boxing, wrestling, all-in fighting and the pentathlon, and his Odes are fascinating not only for their poetic qualities, but for what they tell us about the Games. Pindar praises the victor by comparing him to mythical heroes and the gods, but also reminds the athlete of his human limitations. The Odes contain versions of some of the best known Greek myths, such as Jason and the Argonauts, and Perseus and Medusa, and are a valuable source for Greek religion and ethics. Pindar's startling use of language - striking metaphors, bold syntax, enigmatic expressions - makes reading his poetry a uniquely rewarding experience. Anthony Verity's lucid translations are complemented by an introduction and notes that provide insight into competition, myth, and meaning. -

Pindar's Poetics of Immortality

Pindar's Poetics of Immortality
Author: Asya C. Sigelman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2016-07-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 110713501X

Offers a new approach to Pindar's victory odes by focusing on their poetic aim of immortalization.

Pindar's Odes

Pindar's Odes
Author: Pindar
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1974
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780672515439

Pindar and the Cult of Heroes

Pindar and the Cult of Heroes
Author: Bruno Currie
Publisher: Oxford Classical Monographs
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780199277247

Pindar and the Cult of Heroes takes a radical new look at the veneration and cult of heroic men, living and dead, in ancient Greece. Bruno Currie finds the roots of the Hellenistic ruler cult, and hence Roman emperor cult, in the 5th century BC (and earlier). Pindar's victory odes represent a crucial stage in this process. Currie also offers a major re-evaluation of the epinician genre and extensive studies of five of Pindar's odes.

Pindar's Eyes

Pindar's Eyes
Author: David Fearn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2017
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0198746377

Pindar's Eyes is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions between Greek lyric poetry and visual and material culture in the early fifth century BCE. Its aim is to open up analysis of lyric to the wider theme of aesthetic experience in early classical Greece, with particular focus on the poetic mechanisms through which Pindar's victory odes use visual and material culture to engage their audiences. Complete readings of Nemean 5, Nemean 8, and Pythian 1 reveal the poet's deep interest in the relations between lyric poetry and commemorative and religious sculpture, as well as other significant visual phenomena, while literary studies of his evocation of cultural attitudes through elaborate use of the lyric first person are combined with art-historical treatments of ecphrasis, of image and text, and of art's framing of ritual experience in ancient Greece. This specific aesthetic approach is expanded through fresh treatments of Simonides' and Bacchylides' own engagements with material culture, as well as an account of Pindaric themes in the Aeginetan logoi of Herodotus' Histories. These come together to offer not just a novel perspective on the relationship between art and text in Pindaric poetry, but to give rise to new claims about the nature of classical Greek visuality and ritual subjectivity, and to foster a richer understanding of the ways in which classical poetry and art shaped the lives and experiences of their consumers.

Pindaric Metre: The 'Other Half'

Pindaric Metre: The 'Other Half'
Author: Kiichiro Itsumi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199229619

Pindar is one of the greatest Greek poets, but while the metre of half of his poems is easy to grasp, that of the other half has so far remained obscure. Kiichiro Itsumi presents a new account of their metre. He separates the metre into two types and identifies a series of precise entities from which the verses are made, in this way imposing a new clarity and discipline on what had previously seemed a much vaguer process. Itsumi's analyses of individual poems include a discussion ofstanzaic structure, of textual problems, and of particular lines in the stanza and their exploitation within the text. These analyses will be an invaluable resource for serious scholars of Pindar.

The Odes of Pindar

The Odes of Pindar
Author: Pindar
Publisher: London : W. Heineman ; New York : Macmillan
Total Pages: 704
Release: 1915
Genre: Athletes
ISBN: