Peter Agócs
Biographic Data
| ID | 712060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Agócs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Agócs |
| SIGNATURE | AGÓCS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1250-9141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Metapoetry
Pindar is perhaps the most metapoetic of the early Greek poets: his songs constantly refer self-referentially back to their own circumstances, poetics, and the social relationships that they dramatize and exemplify. This chapter examines some typical tropes used by Pindar and (to a lesser extent) other Greek choral poets to reflect on what they as poets and their poems as songs are doing. More broadly, it looks at the metapoetics and implied poet…
The Cambridge Companion to Pindar
Pindar was the single most important, canonical and influential lyric poet in the ancient Greek world, and he remains one of the most demanding and rewarding poets whose work has come down to us from antiquity. This volume represents the most comprehensive introduction to the poet and his reception yet published. Eighteen leading contemporary scholars contribute individual chapters that together help to provide a holistic understanding of Pindar'…
Ovid and Petronius’ Pyramus and Thisbe (Satyricon 131.8-11 and Metamorphoses 4.55-166)
Petronius’ engagement with Ovid’s poetry in the Croton episode of the Satyricon is more extensive than has previously been appreciated. As well as drawing upon Ovidian elegiac poetry, especially Amores 3.7, the description of Encolpius’ second failed tryst with Circe at Satyricon 131.8-11 also alludes to Ovid’s narrative of Pyramus and Thisbe at Metamorphoses 4.55-166. This ironic perversion of one of the Metamorphoses ’ most innocent and tragic …
Ch. 3. Pindar’s Pythian 4
This chapter comprises a narratological analysis of Pindar’s longest victory-ode, Pythian 4, composed to celebrate a chariot victory at Delphi of Arcesilas IV, the Battiad king of Cyrene. Through a close reading of the ode as a colonisation story, and through comparison with the traditions set out by Herodotus in his Libyan logos, it examines Pindar’s handling of oral and poetic tradition, and the connection between poetic form and political/soci…
Speaking in the Wax Tablets of Memory
Discussion of the idea, prevalent in the Greek poetry of the early 5th century (Pindar, Bacchylides and the tragedians) that memory is a kind of 'writing' on the wax tablet of the soul; an idea that went on to play a major role in Greek philosophical theories (Plato and Aristotle) of memory and its physiology, and which also points to early Greek ideas about the nature of the performed written text.
Greek Memories
Greek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts underlying the theories and practices of memory in the Greek world, from the archaic period to Late Antiquity, across all the main literary genres, and to trace some fundamental changes in these theories and practices. It explores the interaction and development of different 'disciplinary' approaches to memory in Ancient Greece, which will enable a fuller and deeper understanding of…
Reading the Victory Ode
The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been substantial. Pindar, Bacchylides and others are now among the most widely read Greek authors precisely because of their significance for the literary development of poetry between Homer and tragedy and their historical involvement in promoting Greek rulers. Their influence was so great that it ultimately helped to define the European notion of lyric fr…
Plutarchos
A vôlegényt római nevén szólítja meg Plutarchos, noha éppúgy görög volt, mint menyasszonya
Too little, too late
Youth in post-communist Hungary
The Change Was But an Unfulfilled Promise”
The Change Was But an Unfulfilled Promise”
Too little, too late
Youth in post-communist Hungary
Plutarchos
A vôlegényt római nevén szólítja meg Plutarchos, noha éppúgy görög volt, mint menyasszonya
Reading the Victory Ode
The victory ode was a short-lived poetic genre in the fifth century BC, but its impact has been substantial. Pindar, Bacchylides and others are now among the most widely read Greek authors precisely because of their significance for the literary development of poetry between Homer and tragedy and their historical involvement in promoting Greek rulers. Their influence was so great that it ultimately helped to define the European notion of lyric fr…
Speaking in the Wax Tablets of Memory
Discussion of the idea, prevalent in the Greek poetry of the early 5th century (Pindar, Bacchylides and the tragedians) that memory is a kind of 'writing' on the wax tablet of the soul; an idea that went on to play a major role in Greek philosophical theories (Plato and Aristotle) of memory and its physiology, and which also points to early Greek ideas about the nature of the performed written text.
Greek Memories
Greek Memories aims to identify and examine the central concepts underlying the theories and practices of memory in the Greek world, from the archaic period to Late Antiquity, across all the main literary genres, and to trace some fundamental changes in these theories and practices. It explores the interaction and development of different 'disciplinary' approaches to memory in Ancient Greece, which will enable a fuller and deeper understanding of…
Ch. 3. Pindar’s Pythian 4
This chapter comprises a narratological analysis of Pindar’s longest victory-ode, Pythian 4, composed to celebrate a chariot victory at Delphi of Arcesilas IV, the Battiad king of Cyrene. Through a close reading of the ode as a colonisation story, and through comparison with the traditions set out by Herodotus in his Libyan logos, it examines Pindar’s handling of oral and poetic tradition, and the connection between poetic form and political/soci…
Ovid and Petronius’ Pyramus and Thisbe (Satyricon 131.8-11 and Metamorphoses 4.55-166)
Petronius’ engagement with Ovid’s poetry in the Croton episode of the Satyricon is more extensive than has previously been appreciated. As well as drawing upon Ovidian elegiac poetry, especially Amores 3.7, the description of Encolpius’ second failed tryst with Circe at Satyricon 131.8-11 also alludes to Ovid’s narrative of Pyramus and Thisbe at Metamorphoses 4.55-166. This ironic perversion of one of the Metamorphoses ’ most innocent and tragic …
Metapoetry
Pindar is perhaps the most metapoetic of the early Greek poets: his songs constantly refer self-referentially back to their own circumstances, poetics, and the social relationships that they dramatize and exemplify. This chapter examines some typical tropes used by Pindar and (to a lesser extent) other Greek choral poets to reflect on what they as poets and their poems as songs are doing. More broadly, it looks at the metapoetics and implied poet…
The Cambridge Companion to Pindar
Pindar was the single most important, canonical and influential lyric poet in the ancient Greek world, and he remains one of the most demanding and rewarding poets whose work has come down to us from antiquity. This volume represents the most comprehensive introduction to the poet and his reception yet published. Eighteen leading contemporary scholars contribute individual chapters that together help to provide a holistic understanding of Pindar'…
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