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Pindar: Victory Odes: Olympians 2, 7 and 11; Nemean 4; ...

Pindar

A presentation by Professor Willcock of seven of Pindar's extant poems celebrating the victories of athletes.

A Complimentary Epistle to James Bruce, Esq., the Abyssinian ...

Peter Pindar

Peter Pindar, James BRUCE (the Traveller.) Here of the genealogy a tree, Branching from Solo'mon's wise trunk to thee: There, with a valour nought could dare withstand, BRUCE fighting an hyaena hand to hand ; 'Which dread hyaena ( what ...

Man's "ephemeros" Nature According to Pindar and Others

Hermann Fränkel

Industrial Religion: The Saucer Pyres of the Athenian Agora

Susan I. Rotroff

Pindar's metaphor of the Isthmus as a bridge spanning two seas encapsulates the essence of the place and gives a fitting title for this volume of essays on the history and archaeology of the area.

Pindar's Homer: the lyric possession of an epic past

Gregory Nagy

Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition.

The Marvellous and the Monstrous in the Sculpture of ...

Kirk Ambrose

8 see the occasional remarks on centaurs in avital heyman, 'That Old Pride of the Men of the Auvergne': Laity and Church in Auvergnat Romanesque Sculpture ( london: pindar, 2005), 60, 121, 144, 147. see also the foundational argument of ...

Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity: Poets, Artists and ...

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chapter 5 A POETIC POSSESSION: PINDAR'S LIVES OF THE POETS anna uhlig What does it mean to write a life? For most of us, our initial tendency is to conceive of biography in terms of genre. We look, with Momigliano, for 'an account of ...

Aglaia:

Charles Segal

In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry - in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and ...

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology

Harvard University

THE MYTH OF PINDAR'S FIRST NEMEAN: SPORTSMEN, POETRY, AND PAIDEIA PETER W. ROSE For John Finley THE relevance of a Pindaric myth has been a fundamental element in the debate about the unity of a Pindaric ode.

Culture In Pieces: Essays on Ancient Texts in Honour of ...

P. J. Parsons

Introduction 1 Richard Rutherford and Dirk Obbink 1. Vanishing Conjecture: The Recovery of Lost Books from Aristotle to Eco Dirk Obbink 2. Pindar as a Man of Letters Martin West 3. The Papyri of Herodotus Stephanie R. West 4. The Use and ...