Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence

Henry Spelman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

376 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-882127-4 (ISBN)

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Taking Pindar as its focus, this volume offers the first book-length study devoted to the rhetoric and realities of literary permanence in early Greek poetry. It explores how Pindar's odes address their first and later audiences, and how the poet's vision of his literary world illuminates the context within which he anticipated its permanence.

Recent scholarship on early Greek lyric has been primarily concerned with the immediate contexts of its first performance. This volume instead turns its attention to the rhetoric and realities of poetic permanence. Taking Pindar and archaic Greek literary culture as its focus, it offers a new reading of Pindar's victory odes which explores not only how they were received by those who first experienced them, but also what they can mean to later audiences. Part One of the discussion investigates Pindar's relationship to both of these audiences, demonstrating how his epinicia address the listeners present at their premiere performance and also a broader secondary audience across space and time. It argues that a full appreciation of these texts involves taking both perspectives into account. Part Two describes how Pindar engages with a wide variety of other poetry, particularly earlier lyric, in order to situate his work both within an immanent poetic history and a contemporary poetic culture. It shows how Pindar's vision of the world shaped the meaning of his work and illuminates the context within which he anticipated its permanence. The book offers new insights into the texts themselves and invites us to rethink early Greek poetic culture through a combination of historical and literary perspectives.

Henry Spelman was raised in Philadelphia and received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2015. He is the author of numerous articles on early Greek poetry and currently holds the WHD Rouse Junior Research Fellowship at Christ's College, Cambridge.

Frontmatter
Note on Translations and Conventions
List of Abbreviations
Precis
Part One: Pindar's Audiences
Introduction to Part One
I: Secondary Audiences
I.1: Knowledge of first performance
I.2: Knowledge of external realities
I.2.A: Public matters
I.2.B: Individual circumstances
I.2.C: Mythology
I.3: Difficult pleasures
I.4: Orality and writing
II: Vital Light in Isthmian 4
III: Event and Artefact: From Performance to Permanence
III.1: Isthmian 2.43 8
III.2: Olympian 10.91 6
III.3: Bacchylides 13.220 31
III.4: Pindar fr. 52o
III.5: Nemean 3.76 84
III.6: Bacchylides 3.90 8
III.7: Conclusions
IV: The Poetics of Permanence
IV.1: Time travel and tradition: Pythian 1
IV.2: The victor's perspective: Nemean 4
IV.3: Epinician lessons: Pythian 6
IV.4: Epic analogues: Pythian 3
IV.5: Epigrammatic interactions: Nemean 5
IV.6: Interwoven perspectives: Nemean 7 and Paean 6
V: Genre and Tradition
V.1: Genre
V.1.A: Occasions and audiences in cultic poetry
V.1.B: Permanence outside epinician
V.1.B.i: Paean 7b
V.1.B.ii: Dithyramb 2 (fr. 70b)
V.1.C: Conclusions: rhetoric and reality
V.2: Tradition
V.2.A: Alcman and Stesichorus
V.2.B: Alcaeus and Sappho
V.2.C: Ibycus and Anacreon
V.2.D: Common considerations
V.2.E: Conclusions: development and continuity
V.3: Coda
Part Two: Pindar and the Traditions of Lyric
Introduction to Part Two
VI: The Epinician Past
VI.1: Epinician origins in history: athletics, Ibycus, Simonides
VI.2: Epinician origins in epinician: from revel to literature
VI.2.A: Nemean 8
VI.2.B: Olympian 10
VI.3: The flowers of new poems: Olympian 9
VII: The Epinician Present
VII.1: Generic references
VII.2: The poet's career
VII.3: Patrons and communities
VII.4: Other eulogists
VII.5: Epinician revels
VII.6: Nemean 6
VII.7: Conclusions
VIII: The Lyric Past
VIII.1: Lyric history
VIII.2: Generic enrichment
VIII.2.A: Pythian 2
VIII.2.B: Pythian 1
VIII.2.C: Isthmian 2
VIII.3: Conclusions
Epilogue
Endmatter
Bibliography
1. Texts
2. Works cited
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.05.2018
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Classical Monographs
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 223 mm
Gewicht	594 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-882127-1 / 0198821271
ISBN-13	978-0-19-882127-4 / 9780198821274
Zustand	Neuware