
Pindar's Library
Performance Poetry and Material Texts
Tom Phillips(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 26. November 2015
Book
Hardback
342 pages
978-0-19-874573-0 (ISBN)
Description
Pindar's Library is the first volume to explore how readers during the Hellenistic period encountered Pindar's poetry in book form, analysing in detail the role played by Pindar's literary, cultic, and scholarly reception in affecting readers' engagement with his epinician odes. The volume examines the poet's literary devices of encomiastic techniques, mythical narratives, and paraenetic discourses against the background of the song culture of the fifth century, considering the poems as both material documents and performance pieces. With a particular focus on the poems that begin and end the Olympian and Pythian books, the volume considers the continuities between reading and attending performances, highlighting elements of readers' experiences distinctive to Hellenistic culture. It also investigates the issue of quotations of poets in ancient commentaries, and how such citations influenced readers' understanding of intertextual relationships. Throughout the volume, the relations between Pindar's epinicians and the contextual factors that influence their reception are seen in dialogic terms: as well as exerting a powerful influence over subsequent literature, the poems are also recontextualized in ways that shift and extend their cultural significance.
Reviews / Votes
Pindar's Library is an unusual and ambitious book, experimental in its method and well-grounded in philological detail... Classicists who are interested in the longue duree of Greek literary history and in Pindar's afterlife will find the book stimulating and thought-provoking. * Boris Maslov, University of Chicago , CJ-Online *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-874573-0 (9780198745730)
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Tom Phillips is Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Merton College, the University of Oxford.
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Junior Research Fellow in ClassicsJunior Research Fellow in Classics, University of Oxford
Content
PART I: CONTEXTS: TO ALEXANDRIA AND BEYOND ; PART II: SINGING PAGES