LEADER 05413nam 22008894a 450 001 996209793303316 005 20230829010312.0 010 $a0-19-171942-0 010 $a1-282-19965-X 010 $a9786612199653 010 $a0-19-153035-2 010 $a1-280-90509-3 010 $a9786610905096 010 $a1-4356-2370-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000375199 035 $a(EBL)3052305 035 $a(OCoLC)648343385 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000089873 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11119342 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000089873 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10092272 035 $a(PQKB)10905026 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000378434 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11937927 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000378434 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10352329 035 $a(PQKB)11588945 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000073626 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3052305 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000375199 100 $a20060707d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThucydides and Pindar$b[electronic resource] $ehistorical narrative and the world of Epinikian poetry /$fSimon Hornblower 210 $aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (473 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-929828-9 311 $a0-19-924919-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [376]-402) and indexes. 327 $a""Table of Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Abbreviations""; ""PART I: SHARED WORLDS""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Plan of this book""; ""Greek athletics: the background""; ""The athletic, equestrian, and musical events at the festivals""; ""Epinikian (victory) odes""; ""The function of the epinikian ode: Pindar and modern anthropology""; ""Performance and audience""; ""Pindar and Thucydides: introductory""; ""Thucydides, Pindar and 'unitarianism'""; ""Dates""; ""The shared athletic milieu""; ""2 Could Thucydides have known Pindar and did he?"" 327 $a""A personal meeting between Thucydides and Pindar?""""Did Thucydides know Pindar's poetry?""; ""3 Content and Outlook""; ""Introductory remarks""; ""Hesychia""; ""Pindar and kingship theory""; ""Medicine, the politician as doctor""; ""Hope; justice and the stronger man; love of what is distant""; ""Patriotic death; ephemerality of life""; ""Intelligence and inborn excellence""; ""Ambition; stasis""; ""Political outlook""; ""4 Religion, Myths, Women, Colonization""; ""Introduction""; ""The afterlife; immortality""; ""Personified abstractions""; ""Myths: women""; ""Colonial myths"" 327 $a""Dorieus of Sparta and the 'lost clod of earth'""""Myths as ways of rejecting or upstaging historical claims""; ""Kinship diplomacy""; ""Mixed colonial realities""; ""Myths of possession""; ""5 People, Places, Prosopography, and Politics""; ""Introduction: prosopography, Pindar, and Bacchylides""; ""Individuals and places (A): the wide sweep (places other than Aigina, Sparta, Kyrene, Athens)""; ""Individuals and places (B): Aigina, Sparta, Kyrene, and Athens""; ""Provisional conclusions""; ""Politics and panhellenic sanctuaries""; ""PART II: THUCYDIDES PINDARICUS"" 327 $a""6 Introduction to Part II""""Vocabulary and parallels""; ""Authors: why just Pindar?""; ""The plan of Part II""; ""7 The Clearest Example of Thucydides Pindaricus: 5. 49a???50.4, the Olympic Games of 420 BC""; ""Why does Thucydides treat this episode so fully?""; ""Lichas son of Arkesilas""; ""Analysis of Th. 5. 49a???50.4""; ""8 Statements of Method; Causation""; ""Introduction""; ""Selectivity""; ""Moralizing""; ""Scruples and self doubt""; ""Causation""; ""Contingency; Dorieus of Sparta; 'derailing individuals'""; ""9 'Antiquarian' Excursuses""; ""10 Speeches""; ""Introduction"" 327 $a""Conclusion"" 330 8 $aSimon Hornblower demonstrates a thematic and literary kinship between Thucydides, one of the greatest of the ancient Greek historians, and Pindar, one of the greatest Greek poets who specialized in celebratory odes for victors in the Olympic Games. 606 $aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aLaudatory poetry, Greek$xHistory and criticism 606 $aOlympic games (Ancient)$xHistoriography 606 $aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aOlympic games (Ancient) in literature 606 $aOdes, Greek$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGreek language$xStyle 606 $aAthletes in literature 606 $aRhetoric, Ancient 607 $aGreece$xHistory$yPeloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C$xHistoriography 615 0$aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)$xHistory 615 0$aLaudatory poetry, Greek$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aOlympic games (Ancient)$xHistoriography. 615 0$aNarration (Rhetoric)$xHistory 615 0$aOlympic games (Ancient) in literature. 615 0$aOdes, Greek$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGreek language$xStyle. 615 0$aAthletes in literature. 615 0$aRhetoric, Ancient. 676 $a881/.01 700 $aHornblower$b Simon$0253463 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996209793303316 996 $aThucydides and Pindar$985435 997 $aUNISA