Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence

by Henry Spelman

Recent scholarship on early Greek lyric has been primarily concerned with the immediate contexts of its first performance. This volume instead turns its attention to the rhetoric and realities of poetic permanence. Taking Pindar and archaic Greek literary culture as its focus, it offers a new reading of Pindar's victory odes which explores not only how they were received by those who first experienced them, but also what they can mean to later audiences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198821271
• ISBN13: 9780198821274
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.6"