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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
A collection of papers by international experts on one of the most paradoxical and influential poetic genres of classical antiquity. |
| Contents |
Early epinician: Ibycus and Simonides / Richard Rawles -- The lost Isthmian odes of Pindar / Giovan Battista D'Alessio -- Epinician sounds: Pindar and musical innovation / Lucia Prauscello -- Epinicians and 'patrons' / Ewen Bowie -- What happened later to the families of Pindaric patrons- and to epinician poetry? / Simon Hornblower -- Performance, re-performance and Pindar's audiences / A.D. Morrison -- Performance and re-performance: the Siphnian treasury evoked (Pindar's Pythian 6, Olympian 2 and Isthmian 2) / Lucia Athanassaki -- Representations of cult in epinician poetry / Franco Ferrari -- Epinician and the symposion: a comparison with the enkomia / Felix Budelmann -- Performance and genre: reading Pindar's [characters omitted] / Peter Agócs -- Pindar's 'difficulty' and the performance of epinician poetry: some suggestions from ethnography / Rosalind Thomas -- Poet and public: communicative strategies in Pindar and Bacchylides / Glenn W. Most -- Image and world in epinician poetry / G.O Hutchinson -- Metaphorical travel and ritual performance in epinician poetry / Claude Calame (translated by Lucy Whitelay) -- Bacchylidean myths / David Fearn -- Reading Pindar / Michael Silk. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Odes, Greek -- History and criticism.
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Odes, Greek. |
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Laudatory poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
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Laudatory poetry, Greek. |
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War poetry, Greek -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Agócs, Peter.
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Carey, Christopher.
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Rawles, Richard.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reading the victory ode. Cambridge : New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9786613922809 (DLC) 2012002686 |
| ISBN |
9781139525848 (electronic book) |
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1139525840 (electronic book) |
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9781139017626 (electronic book) |
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1139017624 (electronic book) |
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1139530518 |
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9781139530514 |
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9781107007871 (Cloth) |
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1107007879 (Cloth) |
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1283610353 |
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9781283610353 |
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9781139530514 |
| Standard No. |
9786613922809 |
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