Pindar in Sicily
Even a cursory look at the remaining corpus of Pindar's victory odes leaves one in no doubt about the wealth, power, and prestige of his Sicilian patrons. Exactly a third of the odes were composed for Sicilian athletic victories, all but three in the more illustrious of the four Panhellenic contests...
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| description | Even a cursory look at the remaining corpus of Pindar's victory odes leaves one in no doubt about the wealth, power, and prestige of his Sicilian patrons. Exactly a third of the odes were composed for Sicilian athletic victories, all but three in the more illustrious of the four Panhellenic contests (Olympian and Pythian), and almost all of them for single horse or chariot races, which required significantly more expenditure than any of the other athletic competitions. The odes to the ruling families of Deinomeniadai and Emmenidai (Hieron of Syracuse and Theron and Xenokrates of Akragas) are the most numerous and have long been considered among the most beautiful, sophisticated, and memorable ancient Greek poetry. It is thus not surprising that recent scholarship has focused on Pindar's special relationship with Sicily in the context of Sicilian social, political, and cultural climate in the fifth century BCE. On the other hand, surprisingly few scholars of Pindar and the historical context in which he worked have ever been to Sicily to see the hometowns of Pindar's patrons, where the songs would most likely have premiered in elaborate public performances, and which figure prominently in all of his compositions. This volume is the result of bringing scholars from a variety of disciplines to Siracusa to discuss these odes and to visit the archaeological remains of the places and people they celebrate. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1164262024-03-27T16:35:15Z Pindar in Sicily Reid, Heather L. Lewis, Virginia M. Language & Literature Philosophy History Classical Studies thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought::QDHA Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history Even a cursory look at the remaining corpus of Pindar's victory odes leaves one in no doubt about the wealth, power, and prestige of his Sicilian patrons. Exactly a third of the odes were composed for Sicilian athletic victories, all but three in the more illustrious of the four Panhellenic contests (Olympian and Pythian), and almost all of them for single horse or chariot races, which required significantly more expenditure than any of the other athletic competitions. The odes to the ruling families of Deinomeniadai and Emmenidai (Hieron of Syracuse and Theron and Xenokrates of Akragas) are the most numerous and have long been considered among the most beautiful, sophisticated, and memorable ancient Greek poetry. It is thus not surprising that recent scholarship has focused on Pindar's special relationship with Sicily in the context of Sicilian social, political, and cultural climate in the fifth century BCE. On the other hand, surprisingly few scholars of Pindar and the historical context in which he worked have ever been to Sicily to see the hometowns of Pindar's patrons, where the songs would most likely have premiered in elaborate public performances, and which figure prominently in all of his compositions. This volume is the result of bringing scholars from a variety of disciplines to Siracusa to discuss these odes and to visit the archaeological remains of the places and people they celebrate. 2023-10-05T11:04:21Z 2023-10-05T11:04:21Z 2021 book ONIX_20231005_9781942495390_2134 9781942495390 9781942495406 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/116426 eng Heritage of Western Greece image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1prsrfx Parnassos Press – Fonte Aretusa 10.2307/j.ctv1prsrfx 10.2307/j.ctv1prsrfx 0fc2431c-0ec4-4bcf-9110-d008dc533c0d 9781942495390 9781942495406 open access |
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