10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPINIKIAN»
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epinikian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
epinikian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of ...
Part Two includes an analysis of Thucydides' account of the Olympic games of 420 BC; discussions of the four components of Thucydides' history in their relation to Pindar; statements of method, excursuses, speeches, and narrative, ...
2
Pindar in English Rhyme; Being an Attempt to Render the ...
The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com).
3
Pindar in English Rhyme
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Thomas Charles Baring, 2009
4
Women Poets in Ancient Greece and Rome
ences, Corinna sought to disguise neither the necessity of marriage nor its harsh
realities for women in a patriarchal culture.79 CORINNA AND THE EPINIKIAN
TRADITION What then can we conclude about Corinna's position vis-a-vis Pindar
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In any case, the first acknowledged master of the epinikian form was Simonides
of Keos, c.556—468 BC, who seems to have been proud to make the
composition of such lyrics a full-time, well-paid métier. His epinikian output, much
respected ...
6
A Companion to Sport and Spectacle in Greek and Roman Antiquity
A third contested elementin epinikian's representation of boxingwas theidea that
boxingwasa sign ofmoral excellence. Unlike inwrestling, wherea victor could
winsimplywithfalls, inboxing and pankration victorywas only gained when an ...
Paul Christesen, Donald G. Kyle, 2013
The bronze-worker Pythagoras, although originating from Rhegion in south Italy,
must have maintained some kind of operational base at Olympia, for his epinikian
statues are recorded at almost every Olympiad between 484 and 452 BC (his ...
8
The Athenian Institution of the Khoregia: The Chorus, the ...
1 143-73 is clearly made to fit the crime, and the delicacies they want to see him
tantalised by are clearly meant to be 'epinikian' delicacies. Cf. ZWE Aristoph. C/
oMrfs 338-9. 248 Some examples: the great feast of Dikaiopolis after the ...
9
Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition
the culminating celebratory mood to bridge the performance with the prospective
epinikian celebration. There may be some merit, for instance, to the theory that
traditional celebratory hymns, with which the play originally ended, were not ...
10
Elaborate Wisdom: The Use of Gnomic Statements in Pindar's ...
Studies in the conventional features of epinikian poetry have recognized the importance of the use of gnomic statements (short memorable wisdom statements) in this poetry since the appearance of Elroy Bundy's seminal work, Studia Pindarica.
