Pindar S Odes

Author : Pindar
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192805539

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The Complete Odes by Pindar Pdf

The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. The Odes contain versions of some of the best known Greek myths and are also a valuable source for Greek religion and ethics. Verity's lucid translations are complemented by insights into competition, myth, and meaning. - ;'we can speak of no greater contest than Olympia' The Greek poet Pindar (c. 518-428 BC) composed victory odes for winners in the ancient Games, including the Olympics. He celebrated the victories of athletes competing in foot races, horse races, boxing, wrestling, all-in fighting and the pentathlon, and his Odes are fascinating not only for their poetic qualities, but for what they tell us about the Games. Pindar praises the victor by comparing him to mythical heroes and the gods, but also reminds the athlete of his human limitations. The Odes contain versions of some of the best known Greek myths, such as Jason and the Argonauts, and Perseus and Medusa, and are a valuable source for Greek religion and ethics. Pindar's startling use of language - striking metaphors, bold syntax, enigmatic expressions - makes reading his poetry a uniquely rewarding experience. Anthony Verity's lucid translations are complemented by an introduction and notes that provide insight into competition, myth, and meaning. -

Author : Pindar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Apollo (Greek deity) in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015012281625

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Pythian Odes by Pindar Pdf

Author : Hanna Boeke
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047422822

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The Value of Victory in Pindar's Odes by Hanna Boeke Pdf

This book investigates the cosmological context of Pindar’s odes, and how it influences his presentation of praise. An overview of cosmological ideas based on gnomai is complemented by detailed literary analyses showing that these ideas are modified according to a victor’s circumstances.

Author : Virginia M. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190910310

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Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar's Sicilian Odes by Virginia M. Lewis Pdf

Myth, Locality, and Identity argues that Pindar engages in a striking, innovative style of mythmaking that represents and shapes Sicilian identities in his epinician odes for Sicilian victors in the fifth century BCE. While Sicily has been thought to be lacking in local traditions for Pindar to celebrate, Lewis argues that the Sicilian odes offer examples of the formation of local traditions: the monster Typho whom Zeus defeated to become king of the gods, for example, now lives beneath Mt. Aitna; Persephone receives the island of Sicily as a gift from Zeus; and the Peloponnesian river Alpheos travels to Syracuse in pursuit of the local spring nymph Arethusa. By weaving regional and Panhellenic myth into the local landscape, as the book shows, Pindar infuses physical places with meaning and thereby contextualizes people, cities, and their rulers within a wider Greek framework. During this time period, Greek Sicily experienced a unique set of political circumstances: the inhabitants were continuously being displaced, cities were founded and resettled, and political leaders rose and fell from power in rapid succession. This book offers the first sustained analysis of myth in Pindar's odes for Sicilian victors across the island that accounts for their shared context. The nodes of myth and place that Pindar fuses in this poetry reinforce and develop a sense of place and community for citizens locally; at the same time, they raise the profile of physical sites and the cities attached to them for larger audiences across the Greek world. In addition to providing new readings of Pindaric odes and offering a model for the formation of Sicilian identities in the first half of the fifth century, the book contributes new insights into current debates on the relationship between myth and place in classical literature.

Author : Pindar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521436362

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Pindar: Victory Odes by Pindar Pdf

The Greek lyric poet Pindar is renowned for his poems celebrating the victories of athletes in the great games of Greece at Olympia, Delphi (the Pythian Games), Corinth (the Isthmian Games) and Nemea. Pindar's victory odes have the reputation of being complex and allusive in their language and reference. In this much-needed commentary on seven of the extant odes, Professor Willcock aims to open up Pindar's poetry to a wider readership by starting with a short and straightforward poem and progressing by level of difficulty to one of the greatest. The book begins with an introduction which includes sections on Pindar's life and on his thought, language and style, but which pays particular attention to the genre of the victory ode and its conventions.

Author : Pfeijffer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004351240

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Three Aeginetan Odes of Pindar by Pfeijffer Pdf

A study of three epinicia of Pindar, which have in common that they celebrate victories of Aeginetan athletes and that they respond to the contemporary political situation in Aegina and to circumstances of the victory. The primary objective of this book is to provide an interpretation of each of the three odes as meaningful, coherent works of the literary art. For each ode, it provides a commentary in which problems of text and interpretation are discussed in detail, a structural and metrical analysis, and an interpretative essay, in which the observations of detail are brought together in order to provide an answer to the question as to how the ode at hand could have functioned as a coherent, meaningful epinicion. The introduction addresses questions of method and provides a description of Pindar's style.

Author : Virginia M. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190910334

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Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar's Sicilian Odes by Virginia M. Lewis Pdf

Myth, Locality, and Identity argues that Pindar engages in a striking, innovative style of mythmaking that represents and shapes Sicilian identities in his epinician odes for Sicilian victors in the fifth century BCE. While Sicily has been thought to be lacking in local traditions for Pindar to celebrate, Lewis argues that the Sicilian odes offer examples of the formation of local traditions: the monster Typho whom Zeus defeated to become king of the gods, for example, now lives beneath Mt. Aitna; Persephone receives the island of Sicily as a gift from Zeus; and the Peloponnesian river Alpheos travels to Syracuse in pursuit of the local spring nymph Arethusa. By weaving regional and Panhellenic myth into the local landscape, as the book shows, Pindar infuses physical places with meaning and thereby contextualizes people, cities, and their rulers within a wider Greek framework. During this time period, Greek Sicily experienced a unique set of political circumstances: the inhabitants were continuously being displaced, cities were founded and resettled, and political leaders rose and fell from power in rapid succession. This book offers the first sustained analysis of myth in Pindar's odes for Sicilian victors across the island that accounts for their shared context. The nodes of myth and place that Pindar fuses in this poetry reinforce and develop a sense of place and community for citizens locally; at the same time, they raise the profile of physical sites and the cities attached to them for larger audiences across the Greek world. In addition to providing new readings of Pindaric odes and offering a model for the formation of Sicilian identities in the first half of the fifth century, the book contributes new insights into current debates on the relationship between myth and place in classical literature.

Author : David C. Young
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Three Odes of Pindar by David C. Young Pdf

Author : Almut Fries
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111128368

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Pindar’s ›First Pythian Ode‹ by Almut Fries Pdf

This is the first large-scale edition with introduction and commentary of Pindar’s First Pythian Ode. Composed for Hieron of Syracuse to mark his Delphic chariot victory of 470 BC and his recent foundation of the city of Aetna, the poem is not only a literary masterpiece, but also of central importance for our understanding of Greek history and culture in the early fifth century BC. As our only contemporary written source for the Sicilian Wars against the Carthaginians and Etruscans, it stands on a level with Simonides’ Plataea Elegy and Aeschylus’ Persians on the Persian Wars. This is a period where epoch-making Greek victories in the east and west were celebrated by the greatest poets in a way that reveals much about the atmosphere in which their works were created and received. The book offers a new edition of the text with a detailed introduction and commentary, which discuss textual problems, language, metre and transmission as well as a variety of literary questions, the historical background and the early performance and reception history of the ode. It will be of interest to scholars and students of archaic and classical Greek poetry and of Greek history of the early fifth century BC.

Author : Frederick M. Keener
Publisher : University of Delaware
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611494150

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Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes by Frederick M. Keener Pdf

Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes presents an account of “the Poets’ Secret,” the quite belated, historically recent, discovery by scholars and critics of something many poets have recognized and employed for ages: the sense expressed by allusively parallel parts within a text—thus expressed intratextually rather than only intertextually. Inferential perception of the implicit sense produced logically and linguistically—by enthymemes, implicatures, and other intratextual features, as well as intertextual ones—can be indispensable for readers’ comprehension of literary as well as other texts, especially their difficult passages. Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes addresses these elusive matters as they have historically been posed by Thomas Gray’s Pindaric odes of 1757, and mainly the first of them, “The Progress of Poesy,” a poem that readers have more or less knowledgeably struggled to understand from the outset. The process of disclosing that ode’s sense can be aided by new further reference to Paradise Lost, in the context of Gray’s largely unpublished Commonplace Book, with its extensive, little-studied, and very pertinent use of Plato and Locke.

Author : Peter Pindar
Publisher : Scholarly Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015030573847

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Isthmian Odes of Pindar by Peter Pindar Pdf

Author : Pindar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003830051

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Pindar: the Olympian and Pythian Odes by Pindar Pdf

Author : Pindar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Laudatory poetry, Greek
ISBN : NLS:B900061612

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Odes of Pindar by Pindar Pdf

Author : Pindar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1753
Category : Olympic games (Ancient)
ISBN : BL:A0024337259

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The Odes of Pindar by Pindar Pdf

Author : Pindar,Gilbert West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1375499408

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Odes of Pindar: Odes of Pindar by Pindar,Gilbert West Pdf