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Pindar's Paeans: A Reading of the Fragments with a Survey of the Genre

By Ian Rutherford

Book information

Publisher
Clarendon Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0198143818, 9780198143819
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17826994 bytes)
Pages
568\567
Time added
2020-04-11 11:26:16

Description

The paean, or sacred hymn to Apollo, had a central place in the song-dance culture of classical Greece. The most celebrated examples of the genre in antiquity were Pindar's paeans. These became known to twentieth century scholars thanks to the discovery of papyrus fragments; this book offers the first comprehensive re-evaluation of the poems. It includes the Greek text and translation of all the paeans of Pindar with a supplement comprising fragments from poems of uncertain genres. Ian Rutherford accompanies each fragment with an interpretation regarding issues of religion, performance, and genre.

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