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- Book Title
- Olympian Odes. Pythian Odes
- Publication Name
- Olympian Odes. Pythian Odes
- Title
- Olympian Odes. Pythian Odes
- Contributor
- William H. Race (Edited and translated by)
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0674995643
- EAN
- 9780674995642
- ISBN
- 9780674995642
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Genre
- Poetry, Sports & Recreation
- Release Date
- 15/04/1997
- Release Year
- 1997
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 11.2 Oz
- Series
- Loeb Classical Library
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Topic
- Ancient & Classical, History, Olympics & Paralympics
- Item Width
- 4.2in
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
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The preeminent lyric poet of ancient Greece. Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (ca. 518-438 BC) was "by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration" in Quintilian's view; Horace judged him "sure to win Apollo's laurels." The esteem of the ancients may help explain why a good portion of his work was carefully preserved. Most of the Greek lyric poets come down to us only in bits and pieces, but nearly a quarter of Pindar's poems survive complete. William H. Race now brings us, in two volumes, a new edition and translation of the four books of victory odes, along with surviving fragments of Pindar's other poems. Like Simonides and Bacchylides, Pindar wrote elaborate odes in honor of prize-winning athletes for public performance by singers, dancers, and musicians. His forty-five victory odes celebrate triumphs in athletic contests at the four great Panhellenic festivals: the Olympic, Pythian (at Delphi), Nemean, and Isthmian games. In these complex poems, Pindar commemorates the achievement of athletes and powerful rulers against the backdrop of divine favor, human failure, heroic legend, and the moral ideals of aristocratic Greek society. Readers have long savored them for their rich poetic language and imagery, moral maxims, and vivid portrayals of sacred myths. Race provides brief introductions to each ode and full explanatory footnotes, offering the reader invaluable guidance to these often difficult poems. His Loeb Pindar also contains a helpfully annotated edition and translation of significant fragments, including hymns, paeans, dithyrambs, maiden songs, and dirges.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674995643
ISBN-13
9780674995642
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1048273
Product Key Features
Book Title
Olympian Odes. Pythian Odes
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Ancient & Classical, History, Olympics & Paralympics
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Poetry, Sports & Recreation
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.4in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
4.2in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
56
Number of Volumes
2 Vols.
Lc Classification Number
Pa4275.E5r33 1997
Volume Number
1
Reviews
Race succeeds admirably in furnishing the text and translation with a concise and helpful introduction, thereby elucidating the social and literary background of the poems that follow. Each poem is also accompanied by a succinct introduction and summary. The accompanying index and genealogies are invaluable study aids for students of myth from the primary sources. Most importantly, Race has achieved his aim of creating a readable translation which follows the familiar Loeb format--a feat of considerable ingenuity in the case of Pindar... Race devotes a significant portion of his introduction to a crisp and detailed analysis of the epinikian genre. Technical issues in Pindar's composition of the Odes are equally effectively dealt with... Undergraduates tackling the complexities of this author for the first time will clearly find this volume essential. The more mature devotee will also benefit, thanks to the user-friendly scholarship of these volumes, from a day or two at the races with Race., This excellent Loeb edition of Pindar supersedes the antiquated volume edited by Sandys in 1915. Its most notable feature is clarity: the Greek typeface is a pleasure to read; the translations are crisp and accurate...plentiful notes both explain Pindar's recherché allusions and bring out how more than one interpretation of the text is often possible... This edition will be of lasting value., [A] translation which is modern, accurate, streamlined, and comprehensible... [which preserves], with a surprising degree of success, a sense of Pindar's artful word order... He may well have produced the best text available... In many respects Race's edition of the fragments will be even more useful than Snell-Maehler... A landmark contribution., This excellent Loeb edition of Pindar supersedes the antiquated volume edited by Sandys in 1915. Its most notable feature is clarity: the Greek typeface is a pleasure to read; the translations are crisp and accurate...plentiful notes both explain Pindar's recherch_ allusions and bring out how more than one interpretation of the text is often possible...this edition will be of lasting value., This excellent Loeb edition of Pindar supersedes the antiquated volume edited by Sandys in 1915. Its most notable feature is clarity: the Greek typeface is a pleasure to read; the translations are crisp and accurate... plentiful notes both explain Pindar's recherché allusions and bring out how more than one interpretation of the text is often possible... This edition will be of lasting value., This excellent Loeb edition of Pindar supersedes the antiquated volume edited by Sandys in 1915. Its most notable feature is clarity: the Greek typeface is a pleasure to read; the translations are crisp and accurate...plentiful notes both explain Pindar's recherch allusions and bring out how more than one interpretation of the text is often possible...this edition will be of lasting value., This excellent Loeb edition of Pindar supersedes the antiquated volume edited by Sandys in 1915. Its most notable feature is clarity: the Greek typeface is a pleasure to read; the translations are crisp and accurate...plentiful notes both explain Pindar's recherché allusions and bring out how more than one interpretation of the text is often possible...This edition will be of lasting value., [A] translation which is modern, accurate, streamlined, and comprehensible...[which preserves], with a surprising degree of success, a sense of Pindar's artful word order...He may well have produced the best text available...In many respects Race's edition of the fragments will be even more useful than Snell-Maehler...A landmark contribution., [A] translation which is modern, accurate, streamlined, and comprehensible...[which preserves], with a surprising degree of success, a sense of Pindar's artful word order... He may well have produced the best text available... In many respects Race's edition of the fragments will be even more useful than Snell-Maehler... A landmark contribution., This excellent Loeb edition of Pindar supersedes the antiquated volume edited by Sandys in 1915. Its most notable feature is clarity: the Greek typeface is a pleasure to read; the translations are crisp and accurate...plentiful notes both explain Pindar's recherché allusions and bring out how more than one interpretation of the text is often possible...this edition will be of lasting value., Race succeeds admirably in furnishing the text and translation with a concise and helpful introduction, thereby elucidating the social and literary background of the poems that follow. Each poem is also accompanied by a succinct introduction and summary. The accompanying index and genealogies are invaluable study aids for students of myth from the primary sources. Most importantly, Race has achieved his aim of creating a readable translation which follows the familiar Loeb format--a feat of considerable ingenuity in the case of Pindar...Race devotes a significant portion of his introduction to a crisp and detailed analysis of the epinikian genre. Technical issues in Pindar's composition of the Odes are equally effectively dealt with...Undergraduates tackling the complexities of this author for the first time will clearly find this volume essential. The more mature devotee will also benefit, thanks to the user-friendly scholarship of these volumes, from a day or two at the races with Race., [A] translation which is modern, accurate, streamlined, and comprehensible'e¦[which preserves], with a surprising degree of success, a sense of Pindar's artful word order...He may well have produced the best text available...In many respects Race's edition of the fragments will be even more useful than Snell-Maehler...A landmark contribution.
Copyright Date
1997
Lccn
95-042927
Dewey Decimal
884.01
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Loeb Classical Library
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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