Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire by Catherine Morgan, Simon Hornblower

Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire

Catherine Morgan, Simon Hornblower

480 pages • first pub 2007 (view editions)

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Ancient sport made a huge if indirect contribution to the literature of ancient Greece, since some sixty poems by Pindar and Bacchylides ('epinikian odes'), written to commemorate victories, survive from the Classical period. This book is a collec...

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