Pindar's Mythmaking
The Fourth Pythian Ode
1st Edition
Published on 14. July 2014
224 pages
978-1-4008-5310-6 (ISBN)
Description
Combining historical and philological method with contemporary literary analysis, this study of Pindar's longest and most elaborate victory ode, the Fourth Pythian, traces the underlying mythical patterns, implicit poetics, and processes of mythopoesis that animate his poetry.
Originally published in 1986.
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Originally published in 1986.
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Content
FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Preface, pg. ix
Abbreviations, pg. xii
Introduction, pg. 3
1. Heroic Guile: The Craft of the Hero and the Art of the Poet, pg. 15
2. The Language of Gods and Men, pg. 30
3. Trials of the Hero: Sexuality, Generational Passage, and the Seeds of Creation, pg. 52
4. Mythic Patterns I: Wandering and Foundation, pg. 72
5. Mythic Patterns II: The Voyage Beyond and Primordial Beginnings, pg. 89
6. The Wisdom of Oedipus, pg. 106
7. Poetry and/or Ideology, pg. 123
8. Pindar's Post-Oral Poetics: Between Inspiration and Textuality, pg. 153
9. Sexual Conflict and Ideology, pg. 165
10. Conclusion. Chionos: Time and Structure, pg. 180
Select Bibliography, pg. 195
Index of Works and Passages, pg. 201
Index of Names and Subjects, pg. 205
Contents, pg. vii
Preface, pg. ix
Abbreviations, pg. xii
Introduction, pg. 3
1. Heroic Guile: The Craft of the Hero and the Art of the Poet, pg. 15
2. The Language of Gods and Men, pg. 30
3. Trials of the Hero: Sexuality, Generational Passage, and the Seeds of Creation, pg. 52
4. Mythic Patterns I: Wandering and Foundation, pg. 72
5. Mythic Patterns II: The Voyage Beyond and Primordial Beginnings, pg. 89
6. The Wisdom of Oedipus, pg. 106
7. Poetry and/or Ideology, pg. 123
8. Pindar's Post-Oral Poetics: Between Inspiration and Textuality, pg. 153
9. Sexual Conflict and Ideology, pg. 165
10. Conclusion. Chionos: Time and Structure, pg. 180
Select Bibliography, pg. 195
Index of Works and Passages, pg. 201
Index of Names and Subjects, pg. 205
