Pindar

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.

ISBN 1853997110   Pages 128 ISBN13 9781853997112 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC   Weight (grammes) 227 Imprint Bristol Classical Press   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title Ancients in Action Publication date 18 Sep 2008   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress PA4276   Width (mm) 135 DEWEY 884.01   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate

1		Praising a Victorious Athlete		16
2		Celebrations for Boys		34
3		Celebrations for Men		69
4		Celebrations for Rulers		101
		Select Bibliography		167
		Notes		169
		Index		173

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