Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9290602
AutoresHenry Spelman (0000-0002-8934-0671, Christ's College, Cambridge, WHD Rouse Junior Research Fellow, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Páginas352
Fecha de publicación2018-05-10
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaPindar and the Poetics of Permanence (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780198821274.001.0001
OpenAlexW2808796551
Open LibraryOL30593818M
ISBN9780198821274
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas22

This work is concerned with Pindar and archaic Greek literary culture. Part One discusses Pindar’s relationship to his audiences. It demonstrates how his victory odes address an audience present at their premiere performance and also a broader secondary audience throughout space and time. I argue that getting the most out of these texts involves simultaneously assuming the perspectives of both. Part Two describes how Pindar uses other lyric to situate his work both within an immanent poetic history and within a contemporary poetic culture. It sets out Pindar’s vision of the literary world, both past and present, and shows how this framework shapes the meaning of his work. Whereas the last several decades of scholarship on early Greek lyric have focused on the immediate contexts of first performance, this work instead focuses on the rhetoric and realities of poetic permanence and provides the first book-length study devoted to this topic. It combines historical and literary perspectives in a unique way in order to offer a new understanding of the nature of early Greek poetic culture and new insights into the texts that it produced

Aesthetics · Art · Composition (language · Epistemology · Intertextuality · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Order (exchange · Poetics · Poetry · Politics · Rhetoric · Scholarship · Victory · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Philosophy · Criticism and interpretation · Greek Odes · Greek poetry · Greek poetry, history and criticism · History and criticism · Pindar