Pindar was the single most important, canonical and influential lyric poet in the ancient Greek world, and he remains one of the most demanding and rewarding poets whose work has come down to us from antiquity. This volume represents the most comprehensive introduction to the poet and his reception yet published. Eighteen leading contemporary scholars contribute individual chapters that together help to provide a holistic understanding of Pindar's poetry, its major themes and its subsequent reception throughout more than two millennia. The book will be invaluable for students, teachers, and scholars, as well as those with a general interest in poetry.
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The most comprehensive introduction yet published to Pindar, one of antiquity's most important poets.
Introduction: Encountering Pindar Henry Spelman; Part I. Pindar's
Poetry:
1. Genres and Fragments Maria Cannatà Fera;
2. Performance and
Reperformance Giambattista D'Alessio;
3. Pindar and the Pindaric 'I' Henry
Spelman;
4. Metapoetry Peter Agócs;
5. Language and Metaphor David Fearn;
6.
Myth and Intertextuality Claas Lattmann;
7. Music, Language and Voice Tom
Phillips;
8. Dialect, Metre, and Transmission Patrick Finglass; Part II.
Pindaric Themes:
9. Pindar and Greek Thought Robert Fowler;
10. Pindar and
the Ritual Language of Greek Polytheism Renaud Gagné;
11. Pindar's Politics
and Politics in Pindar Kathryn Morgan;
12. Materiality Anna Uhlig;
13.
Temporality Maria Pavlou; Part III. Pindaric Receptions:
14. The Ancient
Reception of Pindar Richard Hunter;
15. Translating Pindar Challenges,
Strategies, Rewards Martin Revermann;
16. The Pindaric Ode Victoria Moul;
17.
Pindar as a Poet of Freedom Henry Power; Part IV. Coda:
18. Pythian 10:
Pindar's Parekbasic Poetics Leslie Kurke.
Henry Spelman is an Assistant Professor in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College. He is the author of Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence (2018) and a co-editor of Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece as well as Writing Literary History in the Greek and Roman World (both Cambridge, 2024).
