Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire

by Simon Hornblower

Ancient sport made a huge if indirect contribution to the literature of ancient Greece, since some sixty poems by Pindar and Bacchylides ("epinikian odes"), written to commemorate victories, survive from the Classical period. This book is a collection of essays about that literature, and about the social and physical context for which it was written. The editors assembled an internationally distinguished team of speakers for the original 2002 seminar...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199296723
• ISBN13: 9780199296729
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.9" x 7.7"