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Pindar's poetry, patrons, and festivals :

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0199296723 (hbk.)

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9780199296729 (hbk.)

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Title Proper

Pindar's poetry, patrons, and festivals :

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[Book]

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from archaic Greece to the Roman Empire /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Simon Hornblower and Catherine Morgan

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiv, 473 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill., maps, plans ;

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26 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-445) and indexes

Text of Note

Introduction / Simon Hornblower and Catherine Morgan -- The origins of the festivals, especially Delphi and the Pythia / John Davies -- Origins of the Olympics / Stephen Instone -- Pindar, athletes, and the early Greek statue habit / R.R.R. Smith -- Fame, memorial, and choral poetry : the origins of epinikian poetry : an historical study / Rosalind Thomas -- Epinikian eidography / N.J. Lowe -- Pindar's poetry as poetry : a literary commentary / Michael Silk -- Pindar, place, and performance / Christopher Carey -- Debating patronage : the cases of Argos and Corinth / Catherine Morgan -- Elite mobility in the West / Carla M. Antonaccio -- 'Dolphins in the sea' (Isthmian 9.7) : Pindar and the Aeginetans / Simon Hornblower -- Thessalian aristocracy and society in the age of the Epinikian / Maria Stamatopoulou -- The entire house is full of crowns : Hellenistic agōnes and the commemoration of victory / Riet van Bremen -- 'Kapetōleia Olympia' : Roman emperors and Greek agōnes / Tony Spawforth -- Conclusion : the prestige of the games / Mary Douglas

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Bacchylides-- Criticism and interpretation

Pindar-- Criticism and interpretation

Laudatory poetry, Greek-- History and criticism

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Edition

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Hornblower, Simon

Morgan, Catherine,1961-

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20080407155641.0

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