Epinicians

Author : Peter Agócs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107007879
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading the Victory Ode written by Peter Agócs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of papers by international experts on one of the most paradoxical and influential poetic genres of classical antiquity.

Author : Deborah Boedeker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195350227
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Simonides written by Deborah Boedeker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of his life (550-460 BC), the Greek poet Simonides produced poetic work of every kind then extant. Unfortunately, Simonides' corpus has survived only in fragments, though classical scholars have been studying his work for generations. The 1992 discovery of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri revolutionized the study of Simonides, casting particular light on the epic of Plataea. This edited volume gathers the best of the recent research on Simonides' newly expanded oeuvre into a single collection that will be an important reference for scholars of Greek poetry.

Author : Tom Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198745737
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pindar's Library written by Tom Phillips and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pindar's Library is the first volume to analyse the role played by Pindar's literary, cultic, and scholarly reception in affecting readers' engagement with his poetry, considering the continuities between reading and attending performances, and highlighting elements of readers' experiences which were distinctive to Hellenistic culture.

Author : Bacchylides
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519545718
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Epinicians written by Bacchylides and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not much is known about the life of Bacchylides, but everyone knows how great of a poet he was, becoming one of Ancient Greece's best lyrical poets. The Greeks included him in their canonical list of nine lyric poets, and some of his works survived. His career coincided with the rise of drama, including the playwrights Aeschylus or Sophocles, and his lyrics are known for their clarity in expression and simplicity, making it easier to study the lyrical poetry of Ancient Greece. Epinicians were a genre of occasional poetry that resembled victory odes, written in prose in Ancient Greece as lyrics for a chorus. These were commissioned for and performed at the celebration of an athletic victory in the Panhellenic Games and sometimes in honor of a victory in war. Some of Bacchylides' epinicians survived and are reproduced here.

Author : Lucia Athanassaki
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110254026
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaic and Classical Choral Song written by Lucia Athanassaki and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the many interlocking problems in understanding the modes of performance, dissemination, and transmission of Greek poetry of the seventh to the fifth centuries BC whose first performers were a choral group, sometimes singing in a ritual context, sometimes in more secular celebrations of victories in competitive games. It explores the different ways such a group presented itself and was perceived by its audiences; the place of tyrants, of other prominent individuals and of communities in commissioning and funding choral performances and in securing the further circulation of the songs' texts and music; the social and political role of choral songs and the extent to which such songs continued to be performed both inside and outside the immediate family and polis-community, whether chorally or in archaic Greece's important cultural engine, the elite male symposium, with the consequence that Athenian theatre audiences could be expected to appreciate allusion to or reworking of such poetic forms in tragedy and comedy; and how various types of performance contributed to transmission of written texts of the poems until they were collected and edited by Alexandrian scholars in the third and second centuries BC.

Author : Carola Greengard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Pindar's Epinician Odes written by Carola Greengard and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laura Swift
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119122651
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Greek Lyric written by Laura Swift and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the power of Greek lyric with essays from some of the foremost scholars in the field today Recent decades have seen a strong resurgence of interest in Greek lyric, resulting in this topic becoming one of the most dynamic areas of Classical scholarship. In A Companion to Greek Lyric, renowned Classical scholar Laura Swift delivers a collection of essays by international experts and emerging voices that offers up-to-date approaches on the methodology, contexts, and reception of Greek lyric from the archaic to the Hellenistic period. This edited volume includes detailed analyses of the poets themselves, as well as a reflection of the current state of play in the study of Greek lyric. It showcases the scope and range of approaches to be found in scholarly work in the field. Newcomers to the subject will benefit from the range of contextual and technical information included that allows for a more effective engagement with the lyric poets. Readers will also enjoy: Guidance on working with texts that are mainly preserved as fragments A selection of ways in which lyric poetry has influenced and inspired writers from Rome to the modern era Recommendations for further reading that offer a starting point for how to follow up on a particular topic Perfect for undergraduate and master’s students taking courses on Greek lyric or survey courses on classical literature, A Companion to Greek Lyric also belongs in the libraries of students of English or Comparative Literature seeking an authoritative resource for Greek lyric.

Author : Nigel Nicholson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190493305
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West written by Nigel Nicholson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives," that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on the colorful stories told about athletes in later sources, the fragments of Simonides, and the surviving odes of Pindar and Bacchylides, it argues that epinician was formed in opposition to orally transmitted narratives and that these two forms-epinician and the hero-athlete narrative-promoted opposed political visions, with epinician promoting the Deinomenid empire and its structures and the hero-athlete narrative opposing Deinomenid rule. Combining an intimate knowledge of the material culture of the Greek West with an innovative use of available source material, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West exposes the rich intersections between athletics and politics in Sicily and Italy, offering a new and compelling account of Deinomenid self-promotion and of the varied and complex communities that operated under the Deinomenids' control or within their shadow. Further, by establishing models of production and interpretation for the orally transmitted narratives and bringing them into dialogue with epinician, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West reveals much about epinician as a form, how it developed in the Greek West, what meanings it already carried, and what meanings it accrued as it was appropriated by Hieron the second Deinomenid ruler.

Author : Henry Lawlor Spelman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198821271
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence written by Henry Lawlor Spelman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Pindar as its focus, this volume offers the first book-length study devoted to the rhetoric and realities of literary permanence in early Greek poetry. It explores how Pindar's odes address their first and later audiences, and how the poet's vision of his literary world illuminates the context within which he anticipated its permanence.

Author : Nigel James Nicholson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190209097
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West written by Nigel James Nicholson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By setting epinician in dialogue with the colorful stories about athletes that circulated in the same period, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West offers a new and compelling account of the Deinomenids' self-promotion and of the complex communities within and around the Deinomenid empire.