Pindar''s Poetics of Immortality

Offers a new approach to Pindar's victory odes by focusing on their poetic aim of immortalization.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Microstructure of Pindar's poetic time scheme: compound adjectives and lyric narratives; 2. Macrostructure of Pindar's poetic time scheme: the song-journey; 3. Case study: Pythian 11; 4. Case study: Pythian 4; Appendix A. Text and translation of Hom. Od. 19.393-467 and Pyth. 9.1-75, 11, and 4; Appendix B. Pindar and Bacchylides.

About the author

Asya C. Sigelman is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania.

Summary

Through close case studies of Pindar's victory odes, Asya C. Sigelman offers a new approach to Pindar's famously difficult poetics by focusing on the poetic aim of immortalization. This book will be of interest to classical philologists and readers exploring new interpretative approaches to poetic text.

Product details

• Authors: Asya C. Sigelman, Asya C. (Bryn Mawr College Sigelman, Sigelman Asya C.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9781107135017
• ISBN: 978-1-107-13501-7
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Ancient Greece, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Ancient Egypt, Literary studies: poetry and poets, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory