Pindar's Library

Performance Poetry and Material Texts
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-874573-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 342 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Pindar's Library is the first volume to explore how readers during the Hellenistic period encountered Pindar's poetry in book form, analysing in detail the role played by Pindar's literary, cultic, and scholarly reception in affecting readers' engagement with his epinician odes. The volume examines the poet's literary devices of encomiastic techniques, mythical narratives, and paraenetic discourses against the background of the song culture of the fifth century, considering the poems as both material documents and performance pieces. With a particular focus on the poems that begin and end the Olympian and Pythian books, the volume considers the continuities between reading and attending performances, highlighting elements of readers' experiences distinctive to Hellenistic culture. It also investigates the issue of quotations of poets in ancient commentaries, and how such citations influenced readers' understanding of intertextual relationships. Throughout the volume, the relations between Pindar's epinicians and the contextual factors that influence their reception are seen in dialogic terms: as well as exerting a powerful influence over subsequent literature, the poems are also recontextualized in ways that shift and extend their cultural significance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phillips, Tom

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Abbreviations

- Introduction

- Part I: Contexts: To Alexandria and Beyond

- 1: Texts and Metatexts

- 2: Passing on the Garland: Reception and Material Sites

- Part II: Singing Pages

- 3: Edited Highlights

- 4: Marginalia: Textual Encounters in the Scholia

- 5: Closing the Book: Olympian 14

- 6: Pythians 11 and 12: Materiality, Intertextuality, Closure

- Conclusion

- Bibliography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tom Phillips is Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Merton College, the University of Oxford.