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UNINA9910451359003321 |
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Pindar's poetry, patrons, and festivals [[electronic resource] ] : from archaic Greece to the Roman Empire / / edited by Simon Hornblower and Catherine Morgan |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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1-281-15511-X |
9786611155117 |
0-19-153798-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (490 p.) |
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HornblowerSimon |
MorganCatherine <1961-> |
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Laudatory poetry, Greek - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-445) and indexes. |
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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. |
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A collection of essays, by a stellar team of authors, about the praise (`epinikian') poetry of the classical poets Pindar and Bacchylides. The |
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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 |
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UNINA9910784899603321 |
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Philodemus and poetry : poetic theory and practice in Lucretius, Philodemus, and Horace / / edited by Dirk Obbink |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1995 |
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0-19-770493-X |
1-280-54004-4 |
0-19-535854-6 |
1-4294-0653-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (331 pages) |
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Classical poetry - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Classical poetry - History and criticism |
Aesthetics, Ancient |
Poetics - History - To 1500 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 282-288) and index. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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