Pindar and the Cult of Heroes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pindar and the Cult of Heroes write by Bruno Currie. This book was released on 2010-04-29. Pindar and the Cult of Heroes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Pindar and the Cult of Heroes combines a study of Greek culture and religion (hero cult) with a literary-critical study of Pindar's epinician poetry. It looks at hero cult generally, but focuses especially on heroization in the 5th century BC. There are individual chapters on the heroization of war dead, of athletes, and on the religious treatment of the living in the 5th century. Hero cult, Bruno Currie argues, could be anticipated, in different ways, in a person's lifetime. Epinician poetry too should be interpreted in the light of this cultural context; fundamentally, this genre explores the patron's religious status. The book features extensive studies of Pindar's Pythians 2, 3, 5, Isthmian 7, and Nemean 7.
Hero Cult and Pindar
Hero Cult and Pindar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hero Cult and Pindar write by Bruno Currie. This book was released on 2000. Hero Cult and Pindar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours
The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours write by Gregory Nagy. This book was released on 2020-01-10. The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What does it mean to be a hero? The ancient Greeks who gave us Achilles and Odysseus had a very different understanding of the term than we do today. Based on the legendary Harvard course that Gregory Nagy has taught for well over thirty years, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours explores the roots of Western civilization and offers a masterclass in classical Greek literature. We meet the epic heroes of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, but Nagy also considers the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the songs of Sappho and Pindar, and the dialogues of Plato. Herodotus once said that to read Homer was to be a civilized person. To discover Nagy’s Homer is to be twice civilized. “Fascinating, often ingenious... A valuable synthesis of research finessed over thirty years.” —Times Literary Supplement “Nagy exuberantly reminds his readers that heroes—mortal strivers against fate, against monsters, and...against death itself—form the heart of Greek literature... [He brings] in every variation on the Greek hero, from the wily Theseus to the brawny Hercules to the ‘monolithic’ Achilles to the valiantly conflicted Oedipus.” —Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly
New Heroes in Antiquity
New Heroes in Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Heroes in Antiquity write by Christopher P. Jones. This book was released on 2010. New Heroes in Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Heroes and heroines in antiquity inhabited a space somewhere between gods and humans. In this detailed, yet brilliantly wide-ranging analysis, Christopher Jones starts from literary heroes such as Achilles and moves to the historical record of those exceptional men and women who were worshiped after death. He asks why and how mortals were heroized, and what exactly becoming a hero entailed in terms of religious action and belief. He proves that the growing popularity of heroizing the dead—fallen warriors, family members, magnanimous citizens—represents not a decline from earlier practice but an adaptation to new contexts and modes of thought. The most famous example of this process is Hadrian’s beloved, Antinoos, who can now be located within an ancient tradition of heroizing extraordinary youths who died prematurely. This book, wholly new and beautifully written, rescues the hero from literary metaphor and vividly restores heroism to the reality of ancient life.
Pindar
Pindar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pindar write by Anne Pippin Burnett. This book was released on 2013-10-16. Pindar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. The victor has known the favour of the god whose contest he entered, and has brought back pan-Hellenic fame to his family, friends and city. To extend this glory and make it permanent, he has commissioned a song of praise, had dancers trained to sing it, and summoned an audience of kinsmen, neighbours and friends to enjoy it. Pindar's odes contain invocations and prayers, but their most characteristic effects are achieved thhrough the depiction of fragments of myth. Anne Pippin Burnett argues that these passages were meant neither as mere decoration nor as moral instruction, but served rather as a dramatic mechanism by which dancers brought an experience of another world to guests gathered in the banqueting suite of the victor.
