Thucydides and Pindar : historical narrative and the world of Epinikian poetry /
This book discusses a relationship between Thucydides and Pindar not so far acknowledged in modern scholarship. It 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 the book explores th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Classical Studies module. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book discusses a relationship between Thucydides and Pindar not so far acknowledged in modern scholarship. It 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 the book 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 454 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781435623705 1435623703 9780191719424 0191719420 |