Pindar's Paeans: A Reading of the Fragments with a Survey of the Genre - Hardcover

Rutherford, Ian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198143818 ISBN 13: 9780198143819

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 2001

Synopsis

The paean, or sacred hymn to Apollo, had a central place in the song-dance culture of classical Greece. The most celebrated examples of the genre in antiquity were Pindar's paeans. These became known to twentieth century scholars thanks to the discovery of papyrus fragments; this book offers the first comprehensive re-evaluation of the poems. It includes the Greek text and translation of all the paeans of Pindar with a supplement comprising fragments from poems of uncertain genres. Ian Rutherford accompanies each fragment with an interpretation regarding issues of religion, performance, and genre.

About this title

About the Author

Ian Rutherford is at Harvard University.

Review

Pindar's Paeans is the most concentrated investigation (of these papyri) yet undertaken ... Rutherford's book uses first-rate scholarship to deal with difficult fragments in a way that allows broader conclusions (not least about the roles of lyric poetry in Greek culture) to emerge from the patient sifting of details. It is a fine achievement * Greece & Rome * We must be grateful to Rutherford for bringing these texts to the attention of a wider audience. The commentaries give a handy synthesis of the scattered secondary literature ... will need to be consulted by everyone working on the Paeans. * Journal of Hellenic Studies *

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0198143818
• ISBN 13: 9780198143819
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 564