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Pindar's Verbal Art
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Pages: 280
Authors: James Bradley Wells
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Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appe
Pindar and the Emergence of Literature
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: Boris Maslov
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-14 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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For much of Western history, Pindar's work was recognized as the pinnacle of lyric poetry. This book presents an introduction to different aspects of Pindar's a
Pindar's Library
Language: en
Pages: 341
Authors: Tom Phillips
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Pindar's Library is the first volume to analyse the role played by Pindar's literary, cultic, and scholarly reception in affecting readers' engagement with his
Pindar’s Pythian Twelve: A Linguistic Commentary and a Comparative Study
Language: en
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Pindar’s Pythian Twelve is the only choral lyric epinicion in our possession composed for the winner of a non-athletic competition. Often regarded as an ode o
Pindar's Poetics of Immortality
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Authors: Asya C. Sigelman
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Modern scholarship tends to focus on the social, political and economic information that can be gleaned from Pindar's treatment of the subject of his victory od