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This is the first large-scale edition with introduction and commentary of Pindar's First Pythian Ode. Composed for Hieron of Syracuse to mark his Delphic chariot victory of 470 BC and his recent foundation of the city of Aetna, the poem is not only a literary masterpiece, but also of central importance for our understanding of Greek history and culture in the early fifth century BC. As our only contemporary written source for the Sicilian Wars against the Carthaginians and Etruscans, it stands on a level with Simonides' Plataea Elegy and Aeschylus' Persians on the Persian Wars. This is a period where epoch-making Greek victories in the east and west were celebrated by the greatest poets in a way that reveals much about the atmosphere in which their works were created and received. The book offers a new edition of the text with a detailed introduction and commentary, which discuss textual problems, language, metre and transmission as well as a variety of literary questions, the historical background and the early performance and reception history of the ode. It will be of interest to scholars and students of archaic and classical Greek poetry and of Greek history of the early fifth century BC.

Pindar. --- Greece --- History --- Pindarus

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Textgeschichte. --- Pindar --- Pindar. --- Pindare, --- Pindarus --- Pindarus. --- Criticism, Textual. --- Critique et interprétation.

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The book focusses on the development of the political ode in Italy and France in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and its dissemination throughout continental Europe and finally to England in the seventeenth century. It also considers how the funeral and familiar pindaric and the city ode developed as ancillary to the political ode. It include discussion of odes by early Italian experimenters, Ronsard and his followers, and major English poets — Milton, Marvell, Cowley, Dryden, Behn, Drayton, Jonson, and Spenser.

091 PINDARUS --- 875-1 --- 875-1 Griekse literatuur: poëzie --- Griekse literatuur: poëzie --- 091 PINDARUS Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--PINDARUS --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--PINDARUS --- Laudatory poetry --- History and criticism --- European poetry --- 1450-1600 (Renaissance) --- Greek influences

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Laudatory poetry, Greek --- Poésie élogieuse grecque --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Pindar --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Didyme. --- Didymus --- Pindarus, --- Didymus, --- Poésie élogieuse grecque --- Pindarus. --- Pindarus --- Pindare --- Pindaro --- Πίνδαρος --- Pindaros

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Modern scholarship tends to focus on the social, political and economic information that can be gleaned from Pindar's treatment of the subject of his victory odes - the athlete who brings immortality to his family and polis. In this book, Asya C. Sigelman offers a new approach to the odes, exploring the fact that Pindar's language and imagery suggest that the athlete's victory is only a weaker version of the poet's immortalizing feat. Examining several central Pindaric images, Sigelman shows that they are fundamentally reflexive, structured as expressions of poetic creativity engaged in a perpetual synthesis of intra-poetic time - of the unity of the past, present and future of the world of Pindar's song. As the book's case studies of several of the odes demonstrate, this synthesis is key to Pindar's notion of immortalization and constitutes the central poetic subject of Pindar's song which underlies and informs its praise of the victorious athlete.

Immortality in literature. --- Style, Literary. --- Ode. --- Unsterblichkeit. --- Zeit. --- Pindar --- Pindar. --- Pindarus, --- Pindare. --- Literary style. --- Immortality in literature --- Literary style --- Pindar - Literary style --- Pindarus --- Pindare --- Pindaro --- Πίνδαρος --- Pindaros