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Three Aeginetan Odes of Pindar
A Commentary on Nemean V, Nemean III, & Pythian VIII
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English
Published/Copyright:
1999
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A study of three epinicia of Pindar, which have in common that they celebrate victories of Aeginetan athletes and that they respond to the contemporary political situation in Aegina and to circumstances of the victory.
The primary objective of this book is to provide an interpretation of each of the three odes as meaningful, coherent works of the literary art. For each ode, it provides a commentary in which problems of text and interpretation are discussed in detail, a structural and metrical analysis, and an interpretative essay, in which the observations of detail are brought together in order to provide an answer to the question as to how the ode at hand could have functioned as a coherent, meaningful epinicion.
The introduction addresses questions of method and provides a description of Pindar's style.
The primary objective of this book is to provide an interpretation of each of the three odes as meaningful, coherent works of the literary art. For each ode, it provides a commentary in which problems of text and interpretation are discussed in detail, a structural and metrical analysis, and an interpretative essay, in which the observations of detail are brought together in order to provide an answer to the question as to how the ode at hand could have functioned as a coherent, meaningful epinicion.
The introduction addresses questions of method and provides a description of Pindar's style.
Author / Editor information
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Ph.D. (1996) in Arts, Leiden University, is a Research Fellow at Leiden University. He has published extensively on Pindar and on Greek lyric poetry in general. His feeling for poetry is enhanced by the fact that he himself is a poet.
Reviews
'They will need to be consulted by anyone considering these three odes.'
Stephen Instone, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2000.
‘…wird hinfort seinen festen Platz in der Pindarforschung einnehmen.’
Stefan Hiller, Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft, 2002.
Stephen Instone, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2000.
‘…wird hinfort seinen festen Platz in der Pindarforschung einnehmen.’
Stefan Hiller, Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft, 2002.
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eBook published on:
July 17, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9789004351240
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Main content:
724
eBook ISBN:
9789004351240
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in Pindar, Greek lyric poetry, or Greek literature and linguistics in general, as well as those interested in ancient athletics, Greek aristocracy and the history of Aegina in the early fifth century B.C.
