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Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry

Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry

Hornblower, Simon

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Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0199249199
ISBN13: 9780199249190
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 6 2005
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.48
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.08 Depth: 8.82
Language: English
Simon Hornblower argues for a relationship between Thucydides and Pindar not so far acknowledged in modern scholarship. He argues that ancient critics were right to detect stylistic similarities between these two great exponents of the severe style in prose and verse. In Part One he explores the background of epinikian poetry and athletics, the values shared by the two authors, and religion and colonization myths, and presents a geographically organized survey of Pindar's Mediterranean world, exploiting onomastic evidence. Part Two includes an analysis of Thucydides' account of the Olympic games of 420 BC; discussions of the four components of Thucydides' history in their relation to Pindar; statements of method, excursuses, speeches, and narrative, especially the Sicilian books; and a stylistic-literary comparison of Thucydides and Pindar.

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