Pindar's Verbal Art

Pindar's Verbal Art
Author: James Bradley Wells
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674036277

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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, and laughter. Wells offers a new take on old Pindaric questions: genre, unity of the victory song, tradition, and epinician performance.


Pindar's Verbal Art
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: James Bradley Wells
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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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 appe
Pindar's Art
Language: en
Pages: 326
Authors: John Kevin Newman
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher:

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Pindar's Eyes
Language: en
Pages: 329
Authors: David Fearn
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Pindar's Eyes is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary exploration of the interactions between Greek lyric poetry and visual and material culture in the early fif
Empty Tomb, Apotheosis, Resurrection
Language: en
Pages: 733
Authors: John Granger Cook
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-06 - Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

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Back cover: In this work, John Granger Cook argues that there is no fundamental difference between Paul's conception of the resurrection body and that of the Go
Pindar and the Emergence of Literature
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: Boris Maslov
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-14 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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For much of Western history, Pindar's work was recognized as the pinnacle of lyric poetry. This book presents an introduction to different aspects of Pindar's a