The Greek lyric poet Pindar is renowned for his poems celebrating the victories of athletes in the great games of Greece at Olympia, Delphi (the Pythian Games), Corinth (the Isthmian Games) and Nemea. Pindar's victory odes have the reputation of being complex and allusive in their language and reference. In this much-needed commentary on seven of the extant odes, Professor Willcock aims to open up Pindar's poetry to a wider readership by starting with a short and straightforward poem and progressing by level of difficulty to one of the greatest. The book begins with an introduction that includes sections on Pindar's life and on his thought, language and style, but that pays particular attention to the genre of the victory ode and its conventions.
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The Greek lyric poet Pindar is renowned for poems celebrating athletic victories in the great games of Olympia, Delphi, Corinth and Nemea. Seven extant odes are analyzed with the aid of a commentary that progresses by level of difficulty and pays critical attention to the conventions of the victory ode.
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In 476 BC, Hagesidamos, son of Archestratos, of the town of Epizephyrian Locri (a colony of the mainland Locrians on the east coast of the toe of Italy, named after the nearby Cape Zephyrium: RE x111 1318.13, Pindar, fr.140b.5) won the boys' boxing at Olympia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
encomiastic future, gnomic comment, mythological example, gnomic aorist, epinician odes, chariot victory, victory ode, previous victories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In 476 BC, Hagesidamos, son of Archestratos, of the town of Epizephyrian Locri (a colony of the mainland Locrians on the east coast of the toe of Italy, named after the nearby Cape Zephyrium: RE x111 1318.13, Pindar, fr.140b.5) won the boys' boxing at Olympia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
encomiastic future, gnomic comment, mythological example, gnomic aorist, epinician odes, chariot victory, victory ode, previous victories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Isle of the Blest, Lloyd Jones, Melissos of Thebes, Tenth Olympian New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Studia Pindarica (California Library Reprint Series) by Elroy Bundy in Front Matter, page 55, and Back Matter
- Early Greek Philosophy (Penguin Classics) by Various on page 139
- Pindar and Homer (Ajp Monographs in Classical Philology, No. 4) by Professor Frank Nisetich on page 160
- The Homeric Hymn to Demeter by N. J. Richardson on page 154
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