Pindar by Anne Pippin Burnett

Pindar by Anne Pippin Burnett

Of all the lyric poets of ancient Greece, Pindar is the one whose work has been best preserved. His odes to victorious Greek athletes were entertainments designed for performance in a hospitable atmosphere of drinking, dining and jokes. The victor has known the favour of the god whose contest he entered, and has brought back pan-Hellenic fame to his family, friends and city. To extend this glory and make it permanent, he has commissioned a song of praise, had dancers trained to sing it, and summoned an audience of kinsmen, neighbours and friends to enjoy it. Pindar's odes contain invocations and prayers, but their most characteristic effects are achieved thhrough the depiction of fragments of myth. Anne Pippin Burnett argues that these passages were meant neither as mere decoration nor as moral instruction, but served rather as a dramatic mechanism by which dancers brought an experience of another world to guests gathered in the banqueting suite of the victor.

Anne Pippin Burnett is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of Chicago. She is the author of many book and articles, including most recently "Revenge in Attic and Later Tragedy" (1998) and "Pindar's Songs for Young Athletes of Aigina" (2005).

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ISBN 13	9781853997112
ISBN 10	1853997110
Title	Pindar
Author	Anne Pippin Burnett
Series	Ancients In Action
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2008-09-18
Number of pages	128
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