Cecil Bowra

The Odes of Pindar (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

'What Pindar catches is the joy beyond ordinary emotions as it transcends and transforms them' - C. M. Bowra

Arguably the greatest Greek lyric poet, Pindar (518-438 B. C.) was a controversial figure in fifth-century Greece - a conservative Boiotian aristocrat who studied in Athens and a writer on physical prowess whose interest in the Games was largely philosophical. Pindar's Epinician Odes - choral songs extolling victories in the Games at Olympia, Delphi, Nemea and Korinth - cover the whole spectrum of the Greek moral order, from earthly competition to fate and mythology. But in C. M. Bowra's clear translation his one central image stands out - the successful athlete transformed and transfigured by the power of the gods.

Translated with an introduction by C. M. Bowra.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780241241974
• Artikelnr.: 43074734

Autorenporträt

Andrew M. Miller is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Pittsburgh and the author of From Delos to Delphi: A Literary Study of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo and Greek Lyric: An Anthology in Translation.

Inhaltsangabe

The OdesPreface
Introduction
Main Events in the Games
Pythian X
Pythian VI
Pythian XII
Olympian XIV
Pythian VII
Nemean II
Nemean V
Isthmian VI
Isthmian V
Isthmian VIII
Isthmians III-IV
Olympian XI
Olympian I
Nemean I
Olympian III
Olympian II
Pythian IX
Pythian III
Nemean III
Olympian X
Nemean IV
Nemean IX
Olympian VI
Olympian XII
Pythian I