Pindar's eyes : visual and material culture in Epinician poetry

Pindar's eyes : visual and material culture in Epinician poetry / David Fearn.

This book assesses the ways in which Pindar, as well as other epinician poets, investigates the theme of aesthetic, and specifically visual, experience in early classical Greece. Major case studies offer complete readings of Pindar's Nemean 5, Nemean 8, and Pythian 1. These poems reveal Pindar&...

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Main Author: Fearn, David, 1975- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Ancient Greek
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Pindarus, > v522-v445.
Greek poetry > History and criticism.
Lyric poetry > History and criticism.
Material culture in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM/ Ancient & Classical.
Greek poetry
Lyric poetry
Material culture in literature
Griechisch
Lyrik
Sachkultur
Griechenland
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Eyes and 'I's
  • 1. Efficacy : Nemean 5 and Herodotus on Aeginetan victors, heroes, and statues
  • 2. Contact : lyric referentiality and material culture in Nemean 8
  • 3. Ecphrasis and the politics of time in Pythian 1
  • 4. Language and vision in the Epinician poets
  • Conclusion.

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