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Pindar's Mythmaking: The Fourth Pythian Ode

Pindar's Mythmaking: The Fourth Pythian Ode

Segal, Charles

Hardcover

Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 833

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0691638829
ISBN13: 9780691638829
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Apr 19 2016
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Combining historical and philological method with contemporary literary analysis, this study of Pindar's longest and most elaborate victory ode, the Fourth Pythian, traces the underlying mythical patterns, implicit poetics, and processes of mythopoesis that animate his poetry.

Originally published in 1986.

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