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Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire Hornblower
Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire
Hornblower
A collection of essays, by a stellar team of authors, about the praise (`epinikian') poetry of the classical poets Pindar and Bacchylides. The social and physical, as well as the literary, background to these poems celebrating athletic victory is explored in light of the latest archaeological and sociological insights.
490 pages, 74 b&w illustrations, 1 map
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | February 22, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199296729 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 496 |
| Dimensions | 195 × 252 × 30 mm · 1.26 kg |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Hornblower, Simon (, Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University College London) |
| Editor | Morgan, Catherine (, Professor of Classical Archaeology, King's College London) |
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