Almut Fries: Pindar's 'First Pythian Ode'

Cover: 9783111126005 | Pindars First Pythian Ode | Almut Fries | Buch | XIV | Englisch | 2023

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Beschreibung

This is the first large-scale edition with introduction and commentary of Pindar's First Pythian Ode. Composed for Hieron of Syracuse to mark his Delphic chariot victory of 470 BC and his recent foundation of the city of Aetna, the poem is not only a literary masterpiece, but also of central importance for our understanding of Greek history and culture in the early fifth century BC. As our only contemporary written source for the Sicilian Wars against the Carthaginians and Etruscans, it stands on a level with Simonides' Plataea Elegy and Aeschylus' Persians on the Persian Wars. This is a period where epoch-making Greek victories in the east and west were celebrated by the greatest poets in a way that reveals much about the atmosphere in which their works were created and received.

The book offers a new edition of the text with a detailed introduction and commentary, which discuss textual problems, language, metre and transmission as well as a variety of literary questions, the historical background and the early performance and reception history of the ode. It will be of interest to scholars and students of archaic and classical Greek poetry and of Greek history of the early fifth century BC.

Zusammenfassung

Almut Fries, The Queen's College, Oxford, United Kingdom. /

Almut Fries, The Queen's College, Oxford, England.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2026
Rubrik:	Sprachwissenschaft
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	XIV 252 S.
ISBN-13:	9783111126005
ISBN-10:	3111126005
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Fries, Almut
Hersteller:	De Gruyter
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Walter de Gruyter GmbH, De Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Str. 13, D-10785 Berlin, productsafety@degruyterbrill.com
Maße:	20 x 169 x 230 mm
Von/Mit:	Almut Fries
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.11.2026
Gewicht:	0,508 kg