Pindar and the Cult of Heroes
by
Bruno Currie
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Oxford Classical Monographs
ISBN-10
0199586705
ISBN-13
9780199586707
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 29th, 2010
Print length
504 Pages
Weight
616 grams
Dimensions
14.00 x 21.40 x 2.70 cms
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A radical new appraisal of the veneration and cult of heroic men, living and dead, in ancient Greece. Bruno Currie finds the roots of the Hellenistic ruler cult, and hence Roman emperor cult, in the 5th century BC (and earlier), and identifies Pindar's victory odes as a crucial stage in this process.
Pindar and the Cult of Heroes combines a study of Greek culture and religion (hero cult) with a literary-critical study of Pindar''s epinician poetry. It looks at hero cult generally, but focuses especially on heroization in the 5th century BC. There are individual chapters on the heroization of war dead, of athletes, and on the religious treatment of the living in the 5th century. Hero cult, Bruno Currie argues, could be anticipated, in different ways, in a person''s lifetime. Epinician poetry too should be interpreted in the light of this cultural context; fundamentally, this genre explores the patron''s religious status. The book features extensive studies of Pindar''s Pythians 2, 3, 5, Isthmian 7, and Nemean 7.
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