Pindar''s Library - Performance Poetry and Material Texts

Zusatztext Pindar's Library is an unusual and ambitious book, experimental in its method and well-grounded in philological detail... Classicists who are interested in the longue durée of Greek literary history and in Pindar's afterlife will find the book stimulating and thought-provoking. Informationen zum Autor Tom Phillips is Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Merton College, the University of Oxford. Klappentext Pindar's Library is the first volume to analyse the role played by Pindar's literary, cultic, and scholarly reception in affecting readers' engagement with his poetry, considering the continuities between reading and attending performances, and highlighting elements of readers' experiences which were distinctive to Hellenistic culture. Zusammenfassung Pindar's Library is the first volume to analyse the role played by Pindar's literary, cultic, and scholarly reception in affecting readers' engagement with his poetry, considering the continuities between reading and attending performances, and highlighting elements of readers' experiences which were distinctive to Hellenistic culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Contexts: To Alexandria and Beyond 1: Texts and Metatexts 2: Passing on the Garland: Reception and Material Sites Part II: Singing Pages 3: Edited Highlights 4: Marginalia: Textual Encounters in the Scholia 5: Closing the Book: Olympian 14 6: Pythians 11 and 12: Materiality, Intertextuality, Closure Conclusion Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Tom Phillips, Tom (Junior Research Fellow in Classics Phillips
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2015
• EAN: 9780198745730
• ISBN: 978-0-19-874573-0
• No. of pages: 342
• Series: Oxford Classical Monographs; Oxford Classical Monographs
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory