Pindar's Songs for Young Athletes of Aigina
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 September 2005
- ISBN 9780199277940
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 222x148x20 mm
- Weight 516 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 figures 0
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Short description:
This book consists of individual studies of the poet Pindar's eleven odes for the victors of the athletic contests on the island of Aigina. Anne Pippin Burnett addresses questions of mythic self-presentation, as well as Pindar's techniques for unifying his audience and leading it into a shared experience of inspired success.
MoreLong description:
This book consists of individual studies of Pindar's eleven odes for Aiginetan victors, preceded by a brief survey of the history of the island and the nature of its aristocracy. Anne Pippin Burnett's discussion is particularly attentive to questions of mythic self-presentation, as exemplified in the pedimental sculptures of the Aphaia Temple and the parallel `narrative' sections of the odes. The overall concern is with Pindaric techniques for unifying an audience and leading it into a shared experience of inspired success, but there is also a concern with the realities of athletic contest and its celebration.
this book is useful and interesting, and likely to stimulate thinking both on the Aeginetan odes themselves and on groups of interrelated Pindaric odes more broadly.
Table of Contents:
I. The Audience
Aiginetans and Aiakids
The Pediments of the Aphaia Temple
Contest and Coming of Age
II. The Performances
Nemean Five. Peleus' Wedding Song
Isthmian Six. Engendering Ajax
Isthmian Five. Achilles and Telephos
Isthmian Eight. A Monster Avoided
Nemean Four. Wrestling with a Form-Changer
Nemean Three. The Education of Achilles
Nemean Six. Athletes as Heroes
Nemean Eight. Slander and Praise
Nemean Seven. Neoptolemos at Delphi
Olympian Eight. Snakes at the Walls of Troy
Pythian Eight. A Phantom's Dream
Afternote: The Audience Again
