Thucydides and Pindar: historical narrative and the world of epinikian poetry
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
- Verlag OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780199298280
- ISBN10 0199298289
- Gegenstandsart BUCH
- Buchseiten 454
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2006
- Bindung Gebunden
Thucydides and Pindar: historical narrative and the world of epinikian poetry
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Festland Spanien
Buch Details
Simon Hornblower argues for a relationship between Thucydides and Pindar not so far acknowledged in modern scholarship. He argues that ancient critics were right to detect stylistic similarities between these two great exponents of the 'severe style' in prose and verse. In Part One, he explores the background of epinikian poetry and athletics, the values shared by the two authors, and religion and colonization myths, and presents a geographically organized survey of Pindar's Mediterranean world, exploiting onomastic evidence. 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, especially the Sicilian books; and a stylistic-literary comparison of Thucydides and Pindar.