{"product_id":"fashioning-immortality-comparative-studies-in-three-pindaric-odes-9783119147699","title":"Fashioning Immortality: Comparative Studies in Three Pindaric Odes","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Laura Massetti\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ancient and Classical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is an interdisciplinary study on Pythian Three, Nemean Three and Nemean Five, three Pindaric epinicians, which share a special use of the word τέκτων, 'fashioner'. In these victory odes, the term τέκτων refers to creators of immaterial objects and occurs close to the first and\/or the final words of the poems, in connection with key themes, namely: health, poetry, choral performance, movement as opposed to stasis. The study shows that structures in which Pindaric metaphors are found have parallels in Indo-European languages of ancient attestation: Old Indic and Avestan. In doing so, the book casts new light on Pindar's language and the stylistic features of his odes, which are in a relation of historical continuity with phraseological and structural characteristics of religious hymns of Ancient India and Iran. The study reveals that *tetƙ-metaphors and \"*tetƙ-compositions\", i.e. metaphors and ring-compositions built by means of repetitions of \"*tetƙ-words\" (Vedic takṣ, Avestan tas, and Greek τέκτων), have a deep meta-thematic relevance in three linguistically related traditions and are an inherited phraseological stylistic feature common to Ancient Greek and Indo-Iranian poetic creations.T\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"de Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47573426733207,"sku":"9783119147699","price":14334.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783119147699.webp?v=1774892836","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/fashioning-immortality-comparative-studies-in-three-pindaric-odes-9783119147699","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}