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Thucydides and Pindar

Name: Thucydides and Pindar
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 04530266
Price: 258.39 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Simon Hornblower
ISBN: 9780199249190

Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry

Simon Hornblower

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04530266

Publishers Oxford University Press, October 2004

Simon Hornblower argues for a relationship between Thucydides and Pindar not so far acknowledged in... Full description

Libristo code: 04530266

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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.