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Thucydides and Pindar : historical narrative and the world of Epinikian poetry /
Thucydides was one of the greatest of the ancient Greek historians and Pindar one of the greatest Greek poets, specializing in celebratory odes for victors in the great games - above all at Olympia. Simon Hornblower puts these two towering figures side-by.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- PART I: SHARED WORLDS
- 1 Introduction
- Plan of this book
- Greek athletics: the background
- The athletic, equestrian, and musical events at the festivals
- Epinikian (victory) odes
- The function of the epinikian ode: Pindar and modern anthropology
- Performance and audience
- Pindar and Thucydides: introductory
- Thucydides, Pindar and 'unitarianism'
- Dates
- The shared athletic milieu
- 2 Could Thucydides have known Pindar and did he?
- A personal meeting between Thucydides and Pindar?
- Did Thucydides know Pindar's poetry?
- 3 Content and Outlook
- Introductory remarks
- Hesychia
- Pindar and kingship theory
- Medicine, the politician as doctor
- Hope; justice and the stronger man; love of what is distant
- Patriotic death; ephemerality of life
- Intelligence and inborn excellence
- Ambition; stasis
- Political outlook
- 4 Religion, Myths, Women, Colonization
- Introduction
- The afterlife; immortality
- Personified abstractions
- Myths: women
- Colonial myths
- Dorieus of Sparta and the 'lost clod of earth'
- Myths as ways of rejecting or upstaging historical claims
- Kinship diplomacy
- Mixed colonial realities
- Myths of possession
- 5 People, Places, Prosopography, and Politics
- Introduction: prosopography, Pindar, and Bacchylides
- Individuals and places (A): the wide sweep (places other than Aigina, Sparta, Kyrene, Athens)
- Individuals and places (B): Aigina, Sparta, Kyrene, and Athens
- Provisional conclusions
- Politics and panhellenic sanctuaries
- PART II: THUCYDIDES PINDARICUS
- 6 Introduction to Part II
- Vocabulary and parallels
- Authors: why just Pindar?
- The plan of Part II
- 7 The Clearest Example of Thucydides Pindaricus: 5. 49-50.4, the Olympic Games of 420 BC
- Why does Thucydides treat this episode so fully?
- Lichas son of Arkesilas
- Analysis of Th. 5. 49-50.4
- 8 Statements of Method; Causation
- Introduction
- Selectivity
- Moralizing
- Scruples and self doubt
- Causation
- Contingency; Dorieus of Sparta; 'derailing individuals'
- 9 'Antiquarian' Excursuses
- 10 Speeches
- Introduction
- Content of the speeches
- Dialogue
- Appendix: Direct speech in Pindar and Bacchylides
- 11 Narrative
- Introduction
- The end of book 5 as both closure and beginning
- Preparation (paraskeuē); ritual preliminaries; trumpets
- Agōn and ag#333nisma: struggle and prize
- The final sea-battle (7. 70-71); the Great Harbour as grandstand
- The responsion between the beginning and end of the expedition
- Nostos (homecoming), successful or humiliating
- The end of book 7 as false closure; book 8. 1
- 12 Thucydides and Pindar: A Stylistic Comparison
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- General Index
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