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Odes for Victorious Athletes
Pindar
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Description for Odes for Victorious Athletes
Paperback. These translations revive the confident excitement of their original performances. Translator(s): Burnett, Anne Pippin. Series: Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 244.
You've just won the gold medal, what are you going to do? In Ancient Greece, your patron could throw a feast in your honor and have a poet write a hymn of praise to you. The great poet Pindar composed many such odes for victorious athletes. Esteemed classicist Anne Pippin Burnett presents a fresh and exuberant translation of Pindar's victory songs. The typical Pindaric ode reflects three separate moments: the instant of success in contest, the victory night with its disorderly revels, and the actual banquet of family and friends where the commissioned poem is being offered as entertainment. ... Read more
You've just won the gold medal, what are you going to do? In Ancient Greece, your patron could throw a feast in your honor and have a poet write a hymn of praise to you. The great poet Pindar composed many such odes for victorious athletes. Esteemed classicist Anne Pippin Burnett presents a fresh and exuberant translation of Pindar's victory songs. The typical Pindaric ode reflects three separate moments: the instant of success in contest, the victory night with its disorderly revels, and the actual banquet of family and friends where the commissioned poem is being offered as entertainment. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Johns Hopkins New Translations from Antiquity
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801895753
SKU
V9780801895753
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About Pindar
Anne Pippin Burnett is Professor Emerita of Classics at the University of Chicago.
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