RECEIVING THE KOMOS.; Ancient and Modern Receptions of the Victory Ode

As New.; X + 250 pp. This book has its origins in the conference Epinician: an international conference on the Victory Ode, hosted by University College London and the Institute of Classical Studies in July 2006. A collection of distinguished scholars examine different moments in the victory ode's reception history, from the lifetime of Pindar and Bacchylides themselves through the Roman empire and the Middle Ages to the modern world, in a variety of texts and in differing cultural contexts.; Institute of Classical Studies Bulletin Supplement 112; 250 pages; Contents: Chris Carey: Victory ode in the theatre; Silvia Barbantani: Hellenistic epinician; Armand D'Angour: Horace's 'Victory Odes': artifices of praise; Daniel Kozak: Literary tradition in Pindar's Nemean 3 and Statius' Achilleid; Ian Rutherford: On the impossibility of Centaurs: the Reception of Pindar in the Roman Empire; Giuseppe Ucciardello: ancient readers of Pindar's Epinicians in Egypt: evidence from papyri; Victoria Moul: A mirror for Noble Deeds: Pindaric form in Jonson's odes and masques; Penelope Wilson: Pindar and English eighteenth-century poetry; Vassiliki Dimoula: The reception of Pindar's Epinicians and nineteenth-century poetic religion: HÃ lderlin and Kalvos; Filippomaria Pontani: Pindar's liberal songs.…