Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire

ISBN-13: 9780199296729 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 480 str.

Simon Hornblower; Catherine Morgan

Opis

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.

Recenzje

This is a rich and rewarding collection of fifteen articles about Pindar's victory odes and their social, historical, and political contexts A. D. Morrisson, The Classical Review

O autorze

Simon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University College London. Catherine Morgan is Professor of Classical Archaeology, King's College London.