Tom Phillips
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Pindar's Library

Performance Poetry and Material Texts

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Pindar's Library is the first volume to explore how readers during the Hellenistic period encountered Pindar's poetry in book form, analysing in detail the role played by Pindar's literary, cultic, and scholarly reception in affecting readers' engagement with his epinician odes. The volume examines the poet's literary devices of encomiastic techniques, mythical narratives, and paraenetic discourses against the background of the song culture of the fifthcentury, considering the poems as both material documents and performance pieces. With a particular focus on the poems that begin and end the O...