Pindar's Paeans: A Reading of the Fragments with a Survey of the Genre

ISBN-13: 9780198143819 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 568 str.

Ian Rutherford;Pindar

Opis

The paean, or sacred hymn to Apollo, had a central place in the song-dance culture of classical Greece. The most celebrated examples of the genre in antiquity were Pindar's paeans. These became known to twentieth century scholars thanks to the discovery of papyrus fragments; this book offers the first comprehensive re-evaluation of the poems. It includes the Greek text and translation of all the paeans of Pindar with a supplement comprising fragments from poems of uncertain genres. Ian Rutherford accompanies each fragment with an interpretation regarding issues of religion, performance, and genre.

Recenzje

Pindar's Paeans is the most concentrated investigation (of these papyri) yet undertaken ... Rutherford's book uses first-rate scholarship to deal with difficult fragments in a way that allows broader conclusions (not least about the roles of lyric poetry in Greek culture) to emerge from the patient sifting of details. It is a fine achievement