Pindar Volume 1

Informationen zum Autor William H. Race is Paddison Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Klappentext Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (ca. 518-438 B.C.) was ' by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration' in Quintilian's view; Horace judged him ' sure to win Apollo's laurels.' The esteem of the ancients may help explain why a good portion of his work was carefully preserved. Most of the Greek lyric poets come down to us only in bits and pieces, but nearly a quarter of Pindar's poems survive complete. WilliamH. Race now brings us, in two volumes, a new edition and translation of the four books of victory odes, along with surviving fragments of Pindar's other poems. Zusammenfassung Pindar (ca. 518–438 BC), esteemed lyric poet, commemorates in complex verse the achievements of athletes and powerful rulers at the four great Panhellenic festivals—the Olympic, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian games—against a backdrop of divine favor, human failure, heroic legend, and aristocratic ambition.

Product details

• Authors: Pindar
• Assisted by: Race William H. (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.1997
• EAN: 9780674995642
• ISBN: 978-0-674-99564-2
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 113 mm x 169 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Loeb Classical Library
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), Poetry anthologies (various poets)