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Pindar's odes contain invocations and prayers, but their most characteristic effects are achieved thhrough the depiction of fragments of myth. This work argues that these passages served as a dramatic mechanism by which dancers brought an experience of another world to guests gathered in the banqueting suite of the victor.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Of all the lyric poets of ancient Greece, Pindar is the one whose work has been best preserved. His odes to victorious Greek athletes were entertainments designed for performance in a hospitable atmosphere of drinking, dining and jokes.

  • 1853997110
  • 9781853997112
  • Anne Pippin Burnett
  • 25 September 2008
  • Bristol Classical Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 175
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