Research Catalog

Title

Reading the victory ode / edited by Péter Agocs, Chris Carey And Richard Rawles.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Agócs, Peter.
• Carey, Christopher (Classicist)
• Rawles, Richard.

Description

xxxiv, 409 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Odes, Greek > History and criticism
• Laudatory poetry, Greek > History and criticism
• War poetry, Greek > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Early epinician: Ibycus and Simonides / Richard Rawles -- The lost Isthmian odes of Pindar / Giovan Battista D'Alessio -- Epinician sounds: Pindar and musical innovation / Lucia Prauscello -- Epinicians and 'patrons' / Ewen Bowie -- What happened later to the families of Pindaric patrons- and to epinician poetry? / Simon Hornblower -- Performance, re-performance and Pindar's audiences / A.D. Morrison -- Performance and re-performance: the Siphnian treasury evoked (Pindar's Pythian 6, Olympian 2 and Isthmian 2) / Lucia Athanassaki -- Representations of cult in epinician poetry / Franco Ferrari -- Epinician and the symposion: a comparison with the enkomia / Felix Budelmann -- Performance and genre: reading Pindar's [characters omitted] / Peter Agócs -- Pindar's 'difficulty' and the performance of epinician poetry: some suggestions from ethnography / Rosalind Thomas -- Poet and public: communicative strategies in Pindar and Bacchylides / Glenn W. Most -- Image and world in epinician poetry / G.O Hutchinson -- Metaphorical travel and ritual performance in epinician poetry / Claude Calame (translated by Lucy Whitelay) -- Bacchylidean myths / David Fearn -- Reading Pindar / Michael Silk.

ISBN

• 9781107007871 (hardback)
• 1107007879 (hardback)

LCCN

• 2012002686
• 99954961105

OCLC

• ocn773429600
• 773429600
• SCSB-5705578

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries