Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199296723 ISBN 13: 9780199296729

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

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 literature, and about the social and physical context for which it was written. The editors assembled an internationally distinguished team of speakers for the original 2002 seminar series held in London, and these papers form the backbone of the book. But to ensure coherence and comprehensive coverage, they have commissioned three further papers, and have themselves written a long thematic Introduction. The result is a stellar team of authors, and a book which looks at an important literary phenomenon in light of the latest archaeological and sociological insights, as well as evaluating the poetry both as poetry and as a performance genre with distinctive characteristics.

About this title

About the Author:

Simon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University College London. Catherine Morgan is Professor of Classical Archaeology, King's College London.

Review:

"Incorporating a consistently excellent scholarship, spanning a large scope of time and territory, offering fresh propositions suggestive of future research directions, and lavishly produced...this major collection is essential for a broad audience of classicists and historians and for the growing community of scholars of ancient sport."--Donald G. Kyle, New England Classical Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0199296723
• ISBN 13: 9780199296729
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496
• Editor: Hornblower Simon, Morgan Catherine