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Zusatztext The quality of the contributions is up to the highest standards of scholarship Informationen zum Autor Simon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University College London.Catherine Morgan is Professor of Classical Archaeology, King's College London. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays, by a stellar team of authors, about the praise (`epinikian') poetry of the classical poets Pindar and Bacchylides. The social and physical, as well as the literary, background to these poems celebrating athletic victory is explored in light of the latest archaeological and sociological insights. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Simon Hornblower and Catherine Morgan: Introduction I 2: J. K. Davies: The origins of the festivals, especially Delphi and the Pythia 3: Stephen Instone: Origins of the Olympics 4: R. R. R. Smith: Pindar, athletes, and the early Greek statue habit 5: Rosalind Thomas: Fame, memorial and choral poetry: the origins of epinikian poetry - a historical study 6: Nick Lowe: Epinikian eidography 7: Michael Silk: Pindar's poetry as poetry: a literary commentary on Olympian 12 8: Christopher Carey: Pindar, place and performance II 9: Catherine Morgan: Debating patronage: the cases of Argos and Corinth 10: Carla M. Antonaccio: Elite mobility in the west 11: Simon Hornblower: `Dolphins in the Sea' (Isthmian 9.7): Pindar and the Aiginetans 12: Maria Stamatopoulou: Thessalian aristocracy and society in the age of epinikian III 13: Riet van Bremen: `The entire house is full of crowns': Hellenistic agones and the commemoration of victory 14: Tony Spawforth: `Kapetoleia Olympia': Roman emperors and Greek agones 15: Mary Douglas: Conclusion: the prestige of the games ...
