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Pindar's Paeans: A Reading of the Fragments with a Survey of the Genre

Pindar's Paeans: A Reading of the Fragments with a Survey of the Genre

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0198143818
ISBN13: 9780198143819
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: Apr 19 2001
Pages: 564
Weight: 1.64
Height: 1.38 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
The paean, or sacred hymn to Apollo, had a central place in the song-dance culture of classical Greece. The most celebrated examples of the genre in antiquity were Pindar's paeans. These became known to twentieth century scholars thanks to the discovery of papyrus fragments; this book offers the first comprehensive re-evaluation of the poems. It includes the Greek text and translation of all the paeans of Pindar with a supplement comprising fragments from poems of uncertain genres. Ian Rutherford accompanies each fragment with an interpretation regarding issues of religion, performance, and genre.

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