Pindar and Greek Religion

Pindar's victory songs teem with divinity. By exploring them within the lived religious landscapes of the fifth century BCE, Hanne Eisenfeld demonstrates that they are in fact engaged in theological work. Focusing on a set of mythical figures whose identities blur the boundaries between mortality and immortality (Herakles, the Dioskouroi, Amphiaraos, and Asklepios), she newly interprets the value of immortality in the epinician corpus. Pindar's depiction of these figures responds to and shapes contemporary religious experience and revalues mortality as a prerequisite for the glory found in victory. The book combines close reading and philological analysis with religious historical approaches to Pindar's songs and his world. It highlights the inextricability of Greek literature and Greek religion, and models a novel approach to Greek lyric poetry at the intersection of these fields

Ancient Greek · Art · Depiction · Divinity · Feminism · Glory · Immortality · Literature · Philology · Poetry · Sociology · Theology · Value (mathematics) · Victory · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Gender Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Philosophy

• Religious Studies and Greek and Roman Religions

  Open Access•Nickolas P Roubekas•Religious Studies Review•2024

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