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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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In Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus, author Arum Park explores two notoriously difficult ancient Greek poets and seeks to articulate the complex relationship between them. Although Pindar and Aeschylus were contemporaries, previous scholarship has often treated them as representatives of contrasting worldviews. Park’s comparative study offers the alternative perspective of understanding them as complements instead. By examining these poets together through the concepts of reciprocity, truth, and gender, this book establishes a relationship between Pindar and Aeschylus that challenges previous conceptions of their dissimilarity. The book accomplishes three aims: first, it shows that Pindar and Aeschylus frame their poetry using similar principles of reciprocity; second, it demonstrates that each poet depicts truth in a way that is specific to those reciprocity principles; and finally, it illustrates how their depictions of gender are shaped by this intertwining of truth and reciprocity. By demonstrating their complementarity, the book situates Pindar and Aeschylus in the same poetic ecosystem, which has implications for how we understand ancient Greek poetry more broadly: using Pindar and Aeschylus as case studies, the book provides a window into their dynamic and interactive poetic world, a world in which ostensibly dissimilar poets and genres actually have much more in common than we might think.

Greek poetry. --- Greek poetry --- History and criticism --- Pindar. --- Pindar --- Criticism, Textual

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Tout en critiquant la morale occidentale ancrée selon lui dans la sentence "Connais-toi toi-même", Nietzsche développe pour sa part un impératif ("Deviens qui tu es") qui s'inspire en réalité également de la tradition delphique, à travers la figure de Pindare. Réinterprétant lui-même cette sentence, le poète écrit "Deviens tel que tu as appris à te connaître". C'est donc paradoxalement à partir de l'injonction à devenir soi que Nietzsche opère la critique de la morale issue elle-même de l'invitation à la connaissance de soi. Ce livre cherche à montrer que cet idéal, tel que le conçoit Platon, libère en réalité la possibilité du devenir soi et que celui-i est comme la formule secrète du "Connais-toi toi-même".

Self-knowledge, Theory of. --- Self-realization. --- Self (Philosophy) --- Plato. --- Pindar. --- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, --- Connaissance de soi. --- Morale --- Réalisation de soi. --- Histoire.