| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 473 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans |
| Contents |
Introduction / Simon Hornblower and Catherine Morgan -- The origins of the festivals, especially Delphi and the Pythia / John Davies -- Origins of the Olympics / Stephen Instone -- Pindar, athletes, and the early Greek statue habit / R.R.R. Smith -- Fame, memorial, and choral poetry : the origins of epinikian poetry : an historical study / Rosalind Thomas -- Epinikian eidography / N.J. Lowe -- Pindar's poetry as poetry : a literary commentary / Michael Silk -- Pindar, place, and performance / Christopher Carey -- Debating patronage : the cases of Argos and Corinth / Catherine Morgan -- Elite mobility in the West / Carla M. Antonaccio -- 'Dolphins in the sea' (Isthmian 9.7) : Pindar and the Aeginetans / Simon Hornblower -- Thessalian aristocracy and society in the age of the Epinikian / Maria Stamatopoulou -- The entire house is full of crowns : Hellenistic agōnes and the commemoration of victory / Riet van Bremen -- 'Kapetōleia Olympia' : Roman emperors and Greek agōnes / Tony Spawforth -- Conclusion : the prestige of the games / Mary Douglas |
| Summary |
A collection of essays, by a stellar team of authors, about the praise (èpinikian') poetry of the classical poets Pindar and Bacchylides. The social and physical, as well as the literary, background to these poems celebrating athletic victory is explored in light of the latest archaeological and sociological insights. - ;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 lit |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
In English and Greek |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Pindar -- Criticism and interpretation
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Bacchylides -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Bacchylides fast |
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Pindar fast |
| Subject |
Laudatory poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Laudatory poetry, Greek
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hornblower, Simon.
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Morgan, Catherine, 1961-
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| ISBN |
9780191537981 |
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0191537985 |
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9786611155117 |
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6611155112 |
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0199296723 |
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9780199296729 |
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