Pindar's Homer

Pindar's Homer
Author: Gregory Nagy
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1994-03-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780801848476

Throughout, he progressively broadens the definition of lyric to the point where it becomes the basis for defining epic, rather than the other way around.

Pindar's Homer

Pindar's Homer
Author: Gregory Nagy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 546
Release: 1990
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Arguing that Greek lyric represents a tradition in its own right, Nagy shows how the form of Greek epic is in fact a differentiation of forms found in Greek lyric. Throughout, he progressively broadens the definition of lyric to the point where it becomes the basis for defining epic, rather than the other way around.

Lying and Poetry from Homer to Pindar

Lying and Poetry from Homer to Pindar
Author: Louise H. Pratt
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1993
Genre: Deception in literature
ISBN: 9780472104178

A suggestive study of an elemental aspect of fiction

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 Paeans

Pindar's Paeans
Author: Pindar
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780198143819

Text and translation of all Pindar's paeans, sacred hymns to Apollo, with a supplement containing fragments from poems of uncertain genre. The lengthy introduction provides a re-evaluation of the poems and examines their place in the song-dance culture of Classical and Hellenistic Greece.

Approaches to Greek Poetry

Approaches to Greek Poetry
Author: Marco Ercoles
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2019-01-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110629879

In the last decades the field of research on ancient Greek scholarship has been the object of a remarkable surge of interest, with the publication of handbooks, reference works, and new editions of texts. This partly unexpected revival is very promising and it continues to enhance and modify both our knowledge of ancient scholarship and the way in which we are accustomed to discuss these texts and tackle the editorial and exegetical challenges they pose. This volume deals with some pivotal aspects of this topic, being the outcome of a three-year project funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR) on specific aspects of the critical re-appraisal of Homer, Hesiod, Pindar, and Aeschylus in Greek culture throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages. It tackles issues such as the material form of the transmission of the exegesis from papyri to codices, the examination of hitherto unexplored branches of the manuscript evidence, the discussion of some important scholia, and the role played by the indirect tradition and the assimilation of the exegetical heritage in grammatical and lexicographical works. Some strands of the ancient and medieval scholarship are here re-evaluated afresh by adopting an interdisciplinary methodology which blends modern editorial techniques developed for ‘problematic’ or ‘non-authorial’ medieval texts with current trends in the history of philology and literary criticism. In their diversity of subject matter and approach the papers collected in the volume give intended readers an excellent overview of the topics of the project.

Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence

Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence
Author: Henry Lawlor Spelman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198821271

Recent scholarship on early Greek lyric has been primarily concerned with the immediate contexts of its first performance. This volume instead turns its attention to the rhetoric and realities of poetic permanence. Taking Pindar and archaic Greek literary culture as its focus, it offers a new reading of Pindar's victory odes which explores not only how they were received by those who first experienced them, but also what they can mean to later audiences. Part One of the discussion investigates Pindar's relationship to both of these audiences, demonstrating how his epinicia address the listeners present at their premiere performance and also a broader secondary audience across space and time. It argues that a full appreciation of these texts involves taking both perspectives into account. Part Two describes how Pindar engages with a wide variety of other poetry, particularly earlier lyric, in order to situate his work both within an immanent poetic history and a contemporary poetic culture. It shows how Pindar's vision of the world shaped the meaning of his work and illuminates the context within which he anticipated its permanence. The book offers new insights into the texts themselves and invites us to rethink early Greek poetic culture through a combination of historical and literary perspectives.

Pindar: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

Pindar: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
Author: Oxford University Press
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2010-05-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199803064

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In classics, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is just one of many articles from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, a continuously updated and growing online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through the scholarship and other materials relevant to the study of classics. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

Inventing Homer

Inventing Homer
Author: Barbara Graziosi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2002-04-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521809665

Explores the ancient reception of the Homeric poems and its relation to modern approaches.

Pindar's Verbal Art

Pindar's Verbal Art
Author: James Bradley Wells
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674036277

Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment, popular instruction, and laughter. Wells offers a new take on old Pindaric questions: genre, unity of the victory song, tradition, and epinician performance.