Pindar's Mythmaking: The Fourth Pythian Ode

by Charles Segal

Book Overview

Combining historical and philological method with contemporary literary analysis, this study of Pindar's longest and most elaborate victory ode, the Fourth Pythian, traces the underlying mythical patterns, implicit poetics, and processes of mythopoesis that animate his poetry.

Originally published in 1986.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691610754
• ISBN13: 9780691610757
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"