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Thucydides and Pindar

Simon Hornblower
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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 ofPindar'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, especiallythe Sicilian books; and a stylistic-literary comparison of Thucydides and Pindar.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Simon Hornblower EAN: 9780199249190 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 689 g HEIGHT: 223 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-10-07 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets

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      Simon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at All Souls College, Oxford
      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 ofPindar'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, especiallythe Sicilian books; and a stylistic-literary comparison of Thucydides and Pindar.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Simon Hornblower EAN: 9780199249190 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 689 g HEIGHT: 223 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2004-10-07 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets

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      Simon Hornblower is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at All Souls College, Oxford

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