Simon (Hrsg.) Hornblower

Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire

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Ancient sport made a huge if indirect contribution to the literature of ancient Greece, since some sixty poems by Pindar and Bacchylides (epinikian odes), written to commemorate victories, survive from the Classical period. This book is a collection of essays about that literature, and about the social and physical context for which it was written. The editors assembled an internationally distinguished team of speakers for the original 2002 seminar series held in London, and these papers form the backbone of the book. But to ensure coherence and comprehensive coverage, they have commissioned three further papers, and have themselves written a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Morgan, Catherine (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-929672-9
EAN: 9780199296729
Produktnummer: 22675215
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 473 S.
Masse: H19.5 cm x B25.2 cm x D3.0 cm 1'247 g
Gewicht: 1247

Über den Autor

Simon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University College London.Catherine Morgan is Professor of Classical Archaeology, King's College London.