Pindar and the Sublime
«This heartfelt study should prompt further debate about the value of Greek lyric and how to read it ... The book’s tone and pace clearly emerge from masterful teaching, making it an excellent introduction for students.»
The Classical Review
Pindar—the ‘Theban eagle’, as Thomas Gray famously called him—has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of eternity. Les mer
Building on recent trends in criticism, he shifts the focus away from the first performance and the orality of Greek culture to reception and the experience of Pindar’s odes as text. This change of emphasis yields a fresh discussion of many facets of Pindar’s astonishing art, including the relation of the poems to their occasions, performativity, the poet’s persona, his imagery, and his myths. Consideration of Pindar’s views on divinity, transcendence, time, and the limits of language reveals him to be not only a great writer but a great thinker.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 280
- ISBN
- 9781350198166
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«This heartfelt study should prompt further debate about the value of Greek lyric and how to read it ... The book’s tone and pace clearly emerge from masterful teaching, making it an excellent introduction for students.»
The Classical Review
«A superb introduction to Pindar and his poetry. Fowler argues lucidly and passionately that Pindar's odes are examples of sublime literature which transcend their historical context and can still enthuse and inspire audiences today.»
Ian Rutherford, Professor of Classics, University of Reading, UK
«Robert Fowler’s Pindar and the Sublime: Greek Myth, Reception, and the Lyric Experience is a profound, erudite, and stimulating book.»
Greece and Rome