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Pindar's Paeans: A Reading of the Fragments With a Survey of the Genre
Pindar's Paeans A Reading of the Fragments With a Survey of the Genre
Author: Pindar, Ian Rutherford
The paean, or sacred hymn to Apollo, had a central place in the song-dance culture of classical Greece. The most celebrated examples of the genre in antiquity were Pindar's paeans. These became known to twentieth century scholars thanks to the discovery of papyrus fragments; this book offers the first comprehensive re-evaluation of the poems. It...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198143819
ISBN-10: 0198143818
Publication Date: 3/26/2001
Pages: 546
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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