Pindar: Selected Odes
| AUTHOR | Instone, Stephen; Instone, Stephen; Instone, Stephen et al. |
| PUBLISHER | Liverpool University Press (01/01/1996) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
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Pindar's Odes, blending beauty of poetic form and profundity of thought, are one of the wonders of Ancient Greece. Composed in the first instance to commemorate athletics victories, they fan out like a peacock's tail to illuminate with brilliant subtlety and imagination the human condition in general, and how our moments of heroic achievement are inevitably tempered by our mortal frailties. This edition aims to make for the first time a selection of these wonderful, but complex, poems accessible and enjoyable not only to scholars and advanced students but especially to sixth-form students and non-Classicists (including anyone interested in Pindar's influence on English poetry). While particular attention is paid to elucidating Pindar's cryptic chains of thoughts and to explaining the significance of the myths in the odes, much greater help than usual in this series is given with translating the Greek. The selection, which contains Pindar's most famous poem (Olympian 1) and two particularly charming mythical stories (in Pythian 9 and Nemean 3), illustrates Pindar's range and variety by including odes commemorating victors at each of the four major games. Greek text with translation, commentary and notes.
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ISBN-13:
9780856686696
ISBN-10:
0856686697
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
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Page Count:
224
Carton Quantity:
36
Product Dimensions:
6.34 x 0.51 x 8.46 inches
Weight:
0.79 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Index,
Table of Contents,
Glossary,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
US
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BISAC Categories
Poetry | Ancient & Classical
Dewey Decimal:
884.01
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Pindar's Odes, blending beauty of poetic form and profundity of thought, are one of the wonders of Ancient Greece. Composed in the first instance to commemorate athletics victories, they fan out like a peacock's tail to illuminate with brilliant subtlety and imagination the human condition in general, and how our moments of heroic achievement are inevitably tempered by our mortal frailties. This edition aims to make for the first time a selection of these wonderful, but complex, poems accessible and enjoyable not only to scholars and advanced students but especially to sixth-form students and non-Classicists (including anyone interested in Pindar's influence on English poetry). While particular attention is paid to elucidating Pindar's cryptic chains of thoughts and to explaining the significance of the myths in the odes, much greater help than usual in this series is given with translating the Greek. The selection, which contains Pindar's most famous poem (Olympian 1) and two particularly charming mythical stories (in Pythian 9 and Nemean 3), illustrates Pindar's range and variety by including odes commemorating victors at each of the four major games. Greek text with translation, commentary and notes.
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Editor:
Instone, Stephen
Anthony Verity is a freelance translator and educational consultant who was formerly Headmaster of Leeds Grammar School and Master of Dulwich College. Other translations for Oxford include Jason and the Golden Fleece by Apollonius of Rhodes, and Idylls, by Theocritus.
Stephen Instone is Honora Research Fellow, University College London
Stephen Instone is Honora Research Fellow, University College London
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Translator:
Instone, Stephen
Anthony Verity is a freelance translator and educational consultant who was formerly Headmaster of Leeds Grammar School and Master of Dulwich College. Other translations for Oxford include Jason and the Golden Fleece by Apollonius of Rhodes, and Idylls, by Theocritus.
Stephen Instone is Honora Research Fellow, University College London
Stephen Instone is Honora Research Fellow, University College London
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