Pindar's songs for young athletes of Aigina /

This book consists of individual studies of the poet Pindar's eleven odes for the victors of the athletic contests on the island of Aigina. Anne Pippin Burnett addresses questions of mythic self-presentation, as well as Pindar's techniques for unifying his audience and leading it into a sh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burnett, Anne Pippin, 1925-2017
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
Temas:
Pindar > Criticism and interpretation.
Pindare > Critique et interprétation.
Pindar
Athletes in literature.
Songs, Greek > History and criticism.
Sportifs dans la littérature.
Chansons grecques > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Athletes in literature
Songs, Greek
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. The audience
  • Aigina and the Aiakids
  • The pediments of the Aphaia Temple
  • Contest and coming of age
  • Part II. The performances
  • Neamen 5 : Peleus' wedding song
  • Isthmian 6 : the engendering of Ajax
  • Isthmian 5 : Achilles and Telephos
  • Isthmian 8 : a monster avoided
  • Nemean 4 : wrestling with a form-changer
  • Nemean 3 : the education of Achilles
  • Nemean 6 : athletes as heroes
  • Nemean 8 : slander and praise
  • Nemean 7 : Neoptolemos at Delphi
  • Olympian 8 : Aiakos at the wall of Troy
  • Pythian 8 : a phantom's dream
  • Afternote : the audience as participant.

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