Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry

by Simon Hornblower

Book Overview

Simon Hornblower argues for a relationship between Thucydides and Pindar not so far acknowledged in modern scholarship. He argues that ancient critics were right to detect stylistic similarities between these two great exponents of the "severe style" in prose and verse. In Part One he explores the background of epinikian poetry and athletics, the values shared by the two authors, and religion and colonization myths, and presents a geographically organized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199298289
• ISBN13: 9780199298280
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.4"