1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451359003321

Titolo

Pindar's poetry, patrons, and festivals [[electronic resource] ] : from archaic Greece to the Roman Empire / / edited by Simon Hornblower and Catherine Morgan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-15511-X

9786611155117

0-19-153798-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (490 p.)

Classificazione

18.43

Altri autori (Persone)

HornblowerSimon

MorganCatherine <1961->

Disciplina

884/.01

Soggetti

Laudatory poetry, Greek - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-445) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Simon Hornblower and Catherine Morgan -- The origins of the festivals, especially Delphi and the Pythia / John Davies -- Origins of the Olympics / Stephen Instone -- Pindar, athletes, and the early Greek statue habit / R.R.R. Smith -- Fame, memorial, and choral poetry : the origins of epinikian poetry : an historical study / Rosalind Thomas -- Epinikian eidography / N.J. Lowe -- Pindar's poetry as poetry : a literary commentary / Michael Silk -- Pindar, place, and performance / Christopher Carey -- Debating patronage : the cases of Argos and Corinth / Catherine Morgan -- Elite mobility in the West / Carla M. Antonaccio -- 'Dolphins in the sea' (Isthmian 9.7) : Pindar and the Aeginetans / Simon Hornblower -- Thessalian aristocracy and society in the age of the Epinikian / Maria Stamatopoulou -- The entire house is full of crowns : Hellenistic agōnes and the commemoration of victory / Riet van Bremen -- 'Kapetōleia Olympia' : Roman emperors and Greek agōnes / Tony Spawforth -- Conclusion : the prestige of the games / Mary Douglas.

Sommario/riassunto

A collection of essays, by a stellar team of authors, about the praise (`epinikian') poetry of the classical poets Pindar and Bacchylides. The



social and physical, as well as the literary, background to these poems celebrating athletic victory is explored in light of the latest archaeological and sociological insights. - ;Ancient sport made a huge if indirect contribution to the literature of ancient Greece, since some sixty poems by Pindar and Bacchylides ('epinikian odes'), written to commemorate victories, survive from the Classical period. This book is a collection of essays about that lit

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784899603321

Titolo

Philodemus and poetry : poetic theory and practice in Lucretius, Philodemus, and Horace / / edited by Dirk Obbink

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1995

ISBN

0-19-770493-X

1-280-54004-4

0-19-535854-6

1-4294-0653-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

ObbinkDirk

Disciplina

881.01

881/.0109

Soggetti

Classical poetry - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Classical poetry - History and criticism

Aesthetics, Ancient

Poetics - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-288) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Framing the Margins of Philodemus and Poetry; 2. Epicurean Poetics; 3. Epicurean Poetics: Response and Dialogue; 4. The Epicurean Philosopher as Hellenistic Poet; 5. The Alleged Impossibility of Philosophical Poetry; 6. Reconstructing Philodemus' On Poems; 7. Content and Form in Philodemus: The History of an Evasion; 8. Philodemus on Censorship, Moral Utility, and Formalism in Poetry; 9. Philodemus on the Technicity of Rhetoric; 10.



How to Read Poetry about Gods; 11. The Impossibility of Metathesis: Philodemus and Lucretius on Form and Content in Poetry

12. Satire as Poetry and the Impossibility of Metathesis in Horace's Satires; Appendix 1. Philodemus, On Poems Book 5; Appendix 2. Philodemus on Poetics, Music, and Rhetoric: A Classified Bibliography; General Bibliography; Contributors; Index of Passages Discussed; Index of Greek and Latin Words; General Index

Sommario/riassunto

Designed to offer a critical survey of trends and developments in recent scholarship on Philodemus of Gadara and Hellenistic literary theory, the essays in this volume examine the papyrus texts of Philodemus' treatises on poetry and the related subjects of rhetoric and music.