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Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry

By Simon Hornblower

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0199298289, 9780199298280
Open Library ID
OL7405615M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6454911 bytes)
Pages
473\473
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Simon Hornblower argues for a relationship between Thucydides and Pindar not so far acknowledged in modern scholarship. He argues that ancient critics were right to detect stylistic similarities between these two great exponents of the "severe style" in prose and verse. In Part One he explores the background of epinikian poetry and athletics, the values shared by the two authors, and religion and colonization myths, and presents a geographically organized survey of Pindar's Mediterranean world, exploiting onomastic evidence. Part Two includes an analysis of Thucydides' account of the Olympic games of 420 BC; discussions of the four components of Thucydides' history in their relation to Pindar; statements of method, excursuses, speeches, and narrative, especially the Sicilian books; and a stylistic-literary comparison of Thucydides and Pindar.

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