Crown of Song: Metaphor in Pindar

by Deborah Steiner

Pindar (c. 518-438 B.C.), one of ancient Greece's most famous lyric poets, is perhaps best known for his victory (epinicean) odes, written to honor the winners at various sets of games, such as the Olympiad. In Crown of Song, Deborah Steiner's study of these odes, she writes "If Pindar is remote from us in genre, his style strikes the reader as vivid and immediate. And in my reading of the epinicean odes, it is the poet's use of metaphor that accounts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195041283
• ISBN13: 9780195041286
• Release Date: July 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"