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Pindar and the poetics of permanence /

Whereas the last several decades of scholarship on early Greek lyric have been primarily concerned with the immediate contexts of first performance, this volume turns its attention instead to the rhetoric and realities of poetic permanence, providing the first book-length study devoted to this topic...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Spelman, Henry L. (Henry Lawlor), 1987- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford classical monographs.
Subjects:
Pindar > Criticism and interpretation.
Pindar
Odes, Greek > History and criticism.
Odes grecques > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Odes, Greek
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part One. Pindar's Audiences
  • Introduction to part one
  • I. Secondary audiences
  • II. Vital light in Isthmian 4
  • III. Event and artefact : from performance to permanence
  • IV. The poetics of permanence
  • V. Genre and tradition
  • Part Two. Pindar and the traditions of Lyric
  • Introduction to part two
  • VI. The Epinician past
  • VII. The Epinician present
  • VIII. The Lyric past
  • Epilogue.