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Download or read book Pindar and the Renaissance Hymn-ode, 1450-1700 written by Stella Purce Revard and published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). This book was released on 2001 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines Pindar and his influence in a broad way by evaluating the impact of his poetry in religious, cultural, and literary contexts. Revard studies the literature that resulted from Pindaric imitation and probes the reason for the great popularity of Pindar and his odes on the continent and in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The study will be of interest to classicists, scholars in comparative literature, and students of Italian, French, and English literature." --