Pindar's poetics of immortality /

Modern scholarship tends to focus on the social, political and economic information that can be gleaned from Pindar's treatment of the subject of his victory odes - the athlete who brings immortality to his family and polis. In this book, Asya C. Sigelman offers a new approach to the odes, expl...

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Main Author: Sigelman, Asya C. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016
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