Pindar Volume 2

Informationen zum Autor William H. Race is Paddison Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Klappentext annotated edition and translation of significant fragments, including hymns, paeans, dithyrambs, maiden songs, and dirges. 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Pindar, Race William H.
• Con la collaborazione di: William H. Race (Editore), William H. Race (Traduzione), William H. (Professor of Classics Race (Traduzione), Race William H. (Editore e traduzione)
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.02.1997
• EAN: 9780674995345
• ISBN: 978-0-674-99534-5
• Pagine: 448
• Dimensioni: 115 mm x 168 mm x 23 mm
• Serie: Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library; Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO [e-mail]
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; POETRY / General, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Italian, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Poetry / Poems