Pindar's Verbal Art
Title | Pindar's Verbal Art PDF eBook |
Author | James Bradley Wells |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674036277 |
Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment, popular instruction, and laughter. Wells offers a new take on old Pindaric questions: genre, unity of the victory song, tradition, and epinician performance.
Pindar's Art
Title | Pindar's Art PDF eBook |
Author | John Kevin Newman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Pindar's Mythmaking
Title | Pindar's Mythmaking PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Segal |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2014-07-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1400853109 |
Combining historical and philological method with contemporary literary analysis, this study of Pindar's longest and most elaborate victory ode, the Fourth Pythian, traces the underlying mythical patterns, implicit poetics, and processes of mythopoesis that animate his poetry. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Pindar
Title | Pindar PDF eBook |
Author | Pindar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Athletics |
ISBN |
Pindar's Eyes
Title | Pindar's Eyes PDF eBook |
Author | David Fearn |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0198746377 |
Pindar's Eyes is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions between Greek lyric poetry and visual and material culture in the early fifth century BCE. Its aim is to open up analysis of lyric to the wider theme of aesthetic experience in early classical Greece, with particular focus on the poetic mechanisms through which Pindar's victory odes use visual and material culture to engage their audiences. Complete readings of Nemean 5, Nemean 8, and Pythian 1 reveal the poet's deep interest in the relations between lyric poetry and commemorative and religious sculpture, as well as other significant visual phenomena, while literary studies of his evocation of cultural attitudes through elaborate use of the lyric first person are combined with art-historical treatments of ecphrasis, of image and text, and of art's framing of ritual experience in ancient Greece. This specific aesthetic approach is expanded through fresh treatments of Simonides' and Bacchylides' own engagements with material culture, as well as an account of Pindaric themes in the Aeginetan logoi of Herodotus' Histories. These come together to offer not just a novel perspective on the relationship between art and text in Pindaric poetry, but to give rise to new claims about the nature of classical Greek visuality and ritual subjectivity, and to foster a richer understanding of the ways in which classical poetry and art shaped the lives and experiences of their consumers.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Title | Harper's New Monthly Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1198 |
Release | |
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All the Odes of Pindar
Title | All the Odes of Pindar PDF eBook |
Author | Pindar |
Publisher | |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1810 |
Genre | Laudatory poetry, Greek |
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