10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPINICIAN»
Discover the use of
epinician in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
epinician and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Epinician Odes and Dithyrambs of Bacchylides
Slavitt argues in the Introduction to this collection that, although Bacchylides is often considered a "lesser Pindar," he is a poet who warrants consideration.
2
Pindar's Verbal Art: An Ethnographic Study of
Epinician Style
In "Pindar s Verbal Art," James Bradley Wells argues that the victory song is a traditional art form that appealed to a popular audience and served exclusive elite interests through the inclusive appeal of entertainment, popular instruction ...
James Bradley Wells, 2009
3
Five
Epinician Odes (3, 5, 9, 11, 13)
This volume covers the five that have come down to us in the fullest form; they have great importance for the study of epinician poetry in particular and of early fifth-century lyric in general.
4
Boiotos Anes Tade Phonesen: The Reception of Hesiod in ...
Although there is significant evidence that Hesiodic poetry enjoyed Panhellenic diffusion by the end of the 6th c.
5
Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and ...
Public epinician performances may not have been common events in Athens, but
Athenians were nevertheless familiar with the genre, whether from sympotic
performance (as suggested by Strepsiades) or as part ofa traditional education.5
It ...
Lucia Athanassaki, Ewen Lyall Bowie, 2011
6
Reading the Victory Ode
let us study what the leomos do es for the epinician ode. Komos language is the
group of words containing the stem Koou-. It includes Kcbuog, Koouosloo ('to
lead or participate in a leomos'), and a number of compound adjectives.22
Komos ...
Peter Agócs, Chris Carey, Richard Rawles, 2012
7
Graceful Errors: Pindar and the Performance of Praise
But the epinician poet does. What is the reason for this difference? Once again, I
suggest that this epinician convention reflects the fact that in epinician poetry it is
the present, and not the past, that is of paramount significance. In epinician ...
Hilary Susan Mackie, 2003
8
Tyranny and Political Culture in Ancient Greece
Indeed, it directs itself in great part to an imaginary audience, which it constructs
of immortal gods, heroes, and personified cities.47 Epinician poets constantly
invoke and beseech this second, imagined audience; the poems themselves are
...
9
Three Odes of Pindar: A Literary Study of Pythian II, ...
The poem is, then, a consummate and lucid literary unit, an epinician in fact as
well as in name,1 which deals with traditional topoi and a specific victor. Yet
through an original use of these materials and a coherent internal development,
the ...
10
Oral Performance and Its Context
The history of the epinician genre is thus in its origins epigraphic,
commemorative, dedicatory, and most importantly, located at the athletic venue.
L. H. Jeffery collected some primitive Boeotian examples of inscribed dedicatory
cauldrons ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EPINICIAN»
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epinician is used in the context of the following news items.
Métaphores et images comme agents poétiques. Espace et temps …
... voir en complément les remarques sceptiques formulées par M. Heath, « Receiving the kômos : The Context and Performance of Epinician » ... «Revues.org, Apr 11»
Agarwalla Will Poke Fun At Growing Up At Harvard
For his thesis, “Through the Lens of Epinician,” Agarwalla wrote about foil in victory songs by Pindar and Bacchylides. Foil, Agarwalla explains ... «Harvard Crimson, Jun 04»
