Reading The Victory Ode

Author : Peter Agócs,Chris Carey,Richard Rawles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139536387

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Reading the Victory Ode by Peter Agócs,Chris Carey,Richard Rawles Pdf

The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been substantial. Pindar, Bacchylides and others are now among the most widely read Greek authors precisely because of their significance for the literary development of poetry between Homer and tragedy and their historical involvement in promoting Greek rulers. Their influence was so great that it ultimately helped to define the European notion of lyric from the Renaissance onwards. This collection of essays by international experts examines the victory ode from a range of angles: its genesis and evolution, the nature of the commissioning process, the patrons, context of performance and re-performance, and the poetics of the victory ode and its exponents. From these different perspectives the contributors offer both a panoramic view of the genre and an insight into the modern research positions on this complex and fascinating subject.

Author : Peter Agócs,Chris Carey,Richard Rawles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107007871

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Reading the Victory Ode by Peter Agócs,Chris Carey,Richard Rawles Pdf

A collection of papers by international experts on one of the most paradoxical and influential poetic genres of classical antiquity.

Author : Christopher Carey,Richard Rawles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Laudatory poetry, Greek
ISBN : 1139525840

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Reading the Victory Ode by Christopher Carey,Richard Rawles Pdf

A collection of papers by international experts on one of the most paradoxical and influential poetic genres of classical antiquity.

Author : Agis Marinis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351610964

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Poetics and Religion in Pindar by Agis Marinis Pdf

This book delves into the intricate and, as argued, essential relationship between poetics and religion in Pindar. It explores how performance, cult, and religious attitudes intersect, offering readers a nuanced approach to Pindaric poetry concerning the relationship between mortals and the divine. Marinis approaches the world of Pindaric poetry within its historical context, enabling readers to explore the cultural and religious foundations of Pindar’s lyric verse. The chapters examine both epinician poetry and cultic songs, the two major genres of the Pindaric corpus. This monograph focuses on the interconnectedness of poetics and religion, a central question that is essential for understanding the distinctive nature of Pindaric poetry. It examines the diverse ways in which Pindaric poetic tropes intersect with religious themes through detailed analysis and scholarly research. Readers gain an understanding of the significance of performance and cult in the public enactment of Pindar’s works, exploring the relations between mortals – the composer of the song, its performer, and the victor in the case of epinician poetry – and the divine, highlighting the complexities of ancient Greek literature regarding religious practices and attitudes. Through its rigorous examination of Pindaric poetics and religious themes, this book offers readers a profound insight into the religious dimensions of ancient Greek poetry and the enduring legacy of Pindar’s oeuvre. Poetics and Religion in Pindar is suitable for scholars and students working on ancient Greek literature, particularly the works of Pindar and lyric poetry, as well as those interested in classical literature and ancient Greek religion and culture more broadly.

Author : Anna A. Lamari,Franco Montanari,Anna Novokhatko
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110621693

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Fragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama by Anna A. Lamari,Franco Montanari,Anna Novokhatko Pdf

This volume examines whether dramatic fragments should be approached as parts of a greater whole or as self-contained entities. It comprises contributions by a broad spectrum of international scholars: by young researchers working on fragmentary drama as well as by well-known experts in this field. The volume explores another kind of fragmentation that seems already to have been embraced by the ancient dramatists: quotations extracted from their context and immersed in a new whole, in which they work both as cohesive unities and detachable entities. Sections of poetic works circulated in antiquity not only as parts of a whole, but also independently, i.e. as component fractions, rather like quotations on facebook today. Fragmentation can thus be seen operating on the level of dissociation, but also on the level of cohesion. The volume investigates interpretive possibilities, quotation contexts, production and reception stages of fragmentary texts, looking into the ways dramatic fragments can either increase the depth of fragmentation or strengthen the intensity of cohesion.

Author : Pindar
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Virginia M. Lewis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : Felix Budelmann,Tom Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192528384

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Textual Events by Felix Budelmann,Tom Phillips Pdf

Recent decades have seen a major expansion in our understanding of how early Greek lyric functioned in its social, political, and ritual contexts, and the fundamental role song played in the day-to-day lives of communities, groups, and individuals has been the object of intense study. This volume places its focus elsewhere, and attempts to illuminate poetic effects that cannot be captured in functional terms alone. Employing a range of interpretative methods, it explores the idea of lyric performances as 'textual events'. Some chapters investigate the pragmatic relationship between real performance contexts and imaginative settings, while others consider how lyric poems position themselves in relation to earlier texts and textual traditions, or discuss the distinctive encounters lyric poems create between listeners, authors, and performers. Individual lyric texts and authors, such as Sappho, Alcaeus, and Pindar, are analysed in detail, alongside treatments of the relationship between lyric and the Homeric Hymns. Building on the renewed concern with the aesthetic in the study of Greek lyric and beyond, Textual Events aims to re-examine the relationship between the poems' formal features and their historical contexts. Lyric poems are a type of socio-political discourse, but they are also objects of attention in themselves. They enable reflection on social and ritual practices as much as they are embedded within in them, but as well as expressing cultural norms, lyric challenges listeners to think about and experience the world afresh.

Author : Mary R. Lefkowitz
Publisher : Noyes Data Corporation/Noyes Publications
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015007016275

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The Victory Ode by Mary R. Lefkowitz Pdf

Author : Deborah Tarn Steiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107110687

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Choral Constructions in Greek Culture by Deborah Tarn Steiner Pdf

Demonstrates the centrality of chorality in the social, religious and technological practices of individuals and communities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004548671

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Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature by Anonim Pdf

Friendship (philia) is a complex and multi-faceted concept that is frequently attested in ancient Greek literature and thought. It is also an important social phenomenon and an institution that features in classical Greek social, cultural, and intellectual history. This collected volume seeks to complement the extensive modern scholarship on this topic by shedding light on complementary representations, nuances and tensions of friendship in a range of different sources, literary, epigraphic, and visual. It offers a broad overview of the contours of this important social phenomenon and helps the reader get a glimpse of its depth and richness.

Author : Pindar,Frank Nisetich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1980-06
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066050504

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Pindar's Victory Songs by Pindar,Frank Nisetich Pdf

Pindar's victory odes, written in the fifth century B.C. to commemorate the heroes of the athletic games, are some of the most powerful and intricte works of ancient Greek poetry -- and perhaps the most difficult to translate well.

Author : Robert L. Fowler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350198135

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Pindar and the Sublime by Robert L. Fowler Pdf

Pindar-the 'Theban eagle', as Thomas Gray famously called him-has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of eternity. In this much-anticipated new study, Robert Fowler asks in what ways the concept of the sublime can still guide a reading of the greatest of the Greek lyric poets. Working with ancient and modern treatments of the topic, especially the poetry and writings of Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843), arguably Pindar's greatest modern reader, he develops the case for an aesthetic appreciation of Pindar's odes as literature. Building on recent trends in criticism, he shifts the focus away from the first performance and the orality of Greek culture to reception and the experience of Pindar's odes as text. This change of emphasis yields a fresh discussion of many facets of Pindar's astonishing art, including the relation of the poems to their occasions, performativity, the poet's persona, his imagery, and his myths. Consideration of Pindar's views on divinity, transcendence, time, and the limits of language reveals him to be not only a great writer but a great thinker.

Author : Lucia Athanassaki,Ewen Bowie
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110254013

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Archaic and Classical Choral Song by Lucia Athanassaki,Ewen Bowie Pdf

This book addresses the performance and dissemination of Greek poems of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC whose premieres were presented by a chorus singing in a ritual context or in secular celebrations of athletic victories. It explores how choruses presented themselves; individuals' and communities' roles in funding performances and securing the circulation of texts; how performances continued inside and outside family and city, whether chorally or in symposia, with the consequence that Athenian theatre audiences could be expected to appreciate allusion to or reworking of such poetic forms in tragedy and comedy; and how such performances contributed to transmission of the poems' texts until they were collected by Hellenistic scholars.

Author : David Fearn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004424371

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Greek Lyric of the Archaic and Classical Periods by David Fearn Pdf

What is distinctive about Greek lyric? How should we conceptualize it in relation to literature, song, music, rhetoric, history? This discussion investigates such questions, analysing a range of influential methodologies that have shaped the recent history of the field.