Pindar's Paeans: A Reading of the Fragments with a Survey of the Genre
by Ian Rutherford
2020-07-24 01:43:45
Pindar's Paeans: A Reading of the Fragments with a Survey of the Genre
by Ian Rutherford
2020-07-24 01:43:45
The paean, or sacred hymn to Apollo, had a central place in the song-dance culture of classical Greece. The most celebrated examples of the genre in antiquity were Pindar''s paeans, which became known to scholars in this century thanks to the discove...
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The paean, or sacred hymn to Apollo, had a central place in the song-dance culture of classical Greece. The most celebrated examples of the genre in antiquity were Pindar''s paeans, which became known to scholars in this century thanks to the discovery of papyrus fragments, some published as
recently as 1989. Long overdue, this book offers the first comprehensive re-evaluation of the poems. It includes a text and translation of all the paeans of Pindar, newly classified, with a supplement comprising fragments from poems of uncertain genres. Dr Rutherford accompanies each fragment with
an interpretation dealing with issues of religion, performance, and genre. A two-part comprehensive introduction looks at general aspects of the genre, including early history, functions, performance, form, eidographic determinacy, use in Greek tragedy, and paeanic ambiguity - as well as offering an
overview of the Pindaric paeans and their Hellenistic edition.
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