Thucydides and Pindar
Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 October 2004
- ISBN 9780199249190
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages472 pages
- Size 223x148x30 mm
- Weight 689 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 halftones, 1 map 0
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Short description:
Thucydides was one of the greatest of the ancient Greek historians and Pindar one of the greatest Greek poets, specializing in celebratory odes for victors in the great games - above all at Olympia. Simon Hornblower puts these two towering figures side-by-side for the first time, demonstrating a thematic and literary kinship.
MoreLong description:
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 survey of Pindar's Mediterranean world, exploiting onomastic evidence. Part Two includes an analysis of Thucydides' account of the Olympic games of 420 BC; discussions of the four components of Thucydides' history in their relation to Pindar; statements of method, excursuses, speeches, and narrative, especially the Sicilian books; and a stylistic-literary comparison of Thucydides and Pindar.
...the accumulation of learned details is astounding and really casts a new light on both authors.
Table of Contents:
I
Introduction
Could Thucydides have known Pindar, and did he?
Content and outlook
Myths, religion, women, colonization
People, places, prosopography, and politics
II. Thucydides Pindaricus
Introduction to Part II
The clearest example of Thucydides Pindaricus: 5.49-50, the Olympic Games of 420 BC
Statements of method; causation
`Antiquarian' excursions
Speeches
Narrative
Thucydides and Pindar: a stylistic comparison
Conclusion
