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The 6th/5th century bce Greek melic (or songwriting) poet Pindar was the most celebrated lyricist of antiquity.
His famous victory odes offer a paean to the heroic athlete, and are an attempt to encapsulate, through choral songs of acclamation, the glory of the sportsman's moment of triumph at a variety of Panhellenic festivals including the Olympic Games.
His other poems, collected in thirteen books, are largely lost or fragmentary - except for the Paeans - but were devoted to the praise of gods and heroes.
Yet Pindar, though still respected, is now considered a difficult poet, and is sometimes dismissed as a reactionary.
In this wideranging introduction, Richard Stoneman shows that Pindar's works, even where they seem obscure, follow a logic of their own and reward further study.
An unmatched craftsman with words, and witness to a profoundly religious sensibility, he is a poet who takes modern readers to the heart of Greek ideas about the gods, fleeting human achievement and mortality.
Theauthor examines questions of performance and genre; patronage; imagery; and reception, from Horace to the twentieth century.
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- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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- ISBN:9780857726261
