Thucydides and Pindar : Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry

Name: Thucydides and Pindar
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199298280
Price: 13250 KES
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ISBN: 9780199298280

by Simon Hornblower

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0199298289

ISBN-13 9780199298280

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 27th, 2006

Print length 480 Pages

Weight 697 grams

Dimensions 21.50 x 13.90 x 2.70 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval Literary studies: poetry & poets

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Thucydides was one of the greatest of the ancient Greek historians and Pindar one of the greatest Greek poets, specializing in celebratory odes for victors in the great games - above all at Olympia. Simon Hornblower puts these two towering figures side-by-side for the first time, demonstrating a thematic and literary kinship.

Simon Hornblower argues for a relationship between Thucydides and Pindar not so far acknowledged in modern scholarship. He argues that ancient critics were right to detect stylistic similarities between these two great exponents of the `severe style'' in prose and verse. In Part One he explores the background of epinikian poetry and athletics, the values shared by the two authors, and religion and colonization myths, and presents a geographically organized survey of Pindar''s Mediterranean world, exploiting onomastic evidence. Part Two includes an analysis of Thucydides'' account of the Olympic games of 420 BC; discussions of the four components of Thucydides'' history in their relation to Pindar; statements of method, excursuses, speeches, and narrative, especially the Sicilian books; and a stylistic-literary comparison of Thucydides and Pindar.

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