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Nemean Odes. Isthmian Odes. Fragments

by Pindar
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780674995345
  • Binding: Hardcover
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  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press
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  • Original Price: GBP 24.95
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 299 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Ancient & Classical

The preeminent lyric poet of ancient Greece.

Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (ca. 518-438 BC) was "by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration" in Quintilian's view; Horace judged him "sure to win Apollo's laurels." The esteem of the ancients may help explain why a good portion of his work was carefully preserved. Most of the Greek lyric poets come down to us only in bits and pieces, but nearly a quarter of Pindar's poems survive complete. William H. Race now brings us, in two volumes, a new edition and translation of the four books of victory odes, along with surviving fragments of Pindar's other poems.

Like Simonides and Bacchylides, Pindar wrote elaborate odes in honor of prize-winning athletes for public performance by singers, dancers, and musicians. His forty-five victory odes celebrate triumphs in athletic contests at the four great Panhellenic festivals: the Olympic, Pythian (at Delphi), Nemean, and Isthmian games. In these complex poems, Pindar commemorates the achievement of athletes and powerful rulers against the backdrop of divine favor, human failure, heroic legend, and the moral ideals of aristocratic Greek society. Readers have long savored them for their rich poetic language and imagery, moral maxims, and vivid portrayals of sacred myths.

Race provides brief introductions to each ode and full explanatory footnotes, offering the reader invaluable guidance to these often difficult poems. His Loeb Pindar also contains a helpfully annotated edition and translation of significant fragments, including hymns, paeans, dithyrambs, maiden songs, and dirges.

Race, William H.: - William H. Race is Paddison Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Race, William H.: - William H. Race is Paddison Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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