The Odes of Pindar (Penguin Classics L209) - Softcover

Bowra, Cecil

 
9780140442090: The Odes of Pindar (Penguin Classics L209)
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ISBN 10: 014044209X ISBN 13: 9780140442090
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1982

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Arguably the greatest Greek lyric poet, Pindar was a controversial figure in fifth-century Greece - a conservative Boiotian aristocrat who studied in Athens and a writer on physical prowess whose interest in the Games was largely philosophical. Pindar's Epinician Odes - choral songs extolling victories in the Games at Olympia, Delphi, Nemea and Korinth - cover the whole spectrum of the Greek moral order, from earthly competition to fate and mythology. But in C. M. Bowra's clear translation his one central image stands out - the successful athlete transformed and transfigured by the power of the gods.

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Arguably the greatest /Greek lyric poet, Pindar (518-438 B. C.) was a controversial figure in fifth-century Greece-a conservative Boiotian aristocrat who studied in Athens and a writer on physical prowess whose interest in the Games was largely philosophical. Pindar's Epinician Odes-choral songs extolling victories in the Games at Olympia, Delphi, Nemea and Korinth cover the whole spectrum of the Greek moral order, from earthly competition to fate and mythology.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1982
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
014044209X
ISBN 13 
9780140442090
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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