Title Thucydides and Pindar : historical narrative and the world of Epinikian poetry / Simon Hornblower

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (454 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Cover -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- PART I: SHARED WORLDS -- 1 Introduction -- Plan of this book -- Greek athletics: the background -- The athletic, equestrian, and musical events at the festivals -- Epinikian (victory) odes -- The function of the epinikian ode: Pindar and modern anthropology -- Performance and audience -- Pindar and Thucydides: introductory -- Thucydides, Pindar and 'unitarianism' -- Dates -- The shared athletic milieu -- 2 Could Thucydides have known Pindar and did he? -- A personal meeting between Thucydides and Pindar? -- Did Thucydides know Pindar's poetry? -- 3 Content and Outlook -- Introductory remarks -- Hesychia -- Pindar and kingship theory -- Medicine, the politician as doctor -- Hope; justice and the stronger man; love of what is distant -- Patriotic death; ephemerality of life -- Intelligence and inborn excellence -- Ambition; stasis -- Political outlook -- 4 Religion, Myths, Women, Colonization -- Introduction -- The afterlife; immortality -- Personified abstractions -- Myths: women -- Colonial myths -- Dorieus of Sparta and the 'lost clod of earth' -- Myths as ways of rejecting or upstaging historical claims -- Kinship diplomacy -- Mixed colonial realities -- Myths of possession -- 5 People, Places, Prosopography, and Politics -- Introduction: prosopography, Pindar, and Bacchylides -- Individuals and places (A): the wide sweep (places other than Aigina, Sparta, Kyrene, Athens) -- Individuals and places (B): Aigina, Sparta, Kyrene, and Athens -- Provisional conclusions -- Politics and panhellenic sanctuaries -- PART II: THUCYDIDES PINDARICUS -- 6 Introduction to Part II -- Vocabulary and parallels -- Authors: why just Pindar? -- The plan of Part II -- 7 The Clearest Example of Thucydides Pindaricus: 5. 49-50.4, the Olympic Games of 420 BC -- Why does Thucydides treat this episode so fully? -- Lichas son of Arkesilas -- Analysis of Th. 5. 49-50.4 -- 8 Statements of Method; Causation -- Introduction -- Selectivity -- Moralizing -- Scruples and self doubt -- Causation -- Contingency; Dorieus of Sparta; 'derailing individuals' -- 9 'Antiquarian' Excursuses -- 10 Speeches -- Introduction -- Content of the speeches -- Dialogue -- Appendix: Direct speech in Pindar and Bacchylides -- 11 Narrative -- Introduction -- The end of book 5 as both closure and beginning -- Preparation (paraskeu&#275); ritual preliminaries; trumpets -- Ag&#333n and ag#333nisma: struggle and prize -- The final sea-battle (7. 70-71); the Great Harbour as grandstand -- The responsion between the beginning and end of the expedition -- Nostos (homecoming), successful or humiliating -- The end of book 7 as false closure; book 8. 1 -- 12 Thucydides and Pindar: A Stylistic Comparison -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z Summary Thucydides was one of the greatest of the ancient Greek historians and Pindar one of the greatest Greek poets, specializing in celebratory odes for victors in the great games - above all at Olympia. Simon Hornblower puts these two towering figures side-by Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 376-402) and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Thucydides -- Literary style Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides -- Knowledge -- Literature Pindar -- Appreciation -- Greece Pindar -- Influence Pindar Thucydides SUBJECT History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides) fast Subject Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History -- To 1500 Laudatory poetry, Greek -- History and criticism Olympic games (Ancient) -- Historiography Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500 Olympic games (Ancient) in literature. Odes, Greek -- History and criticism Greek language -- Style Athletes in literature. Rhetoric, Ancient. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical. Literature Art appreciation Athletes in literature Greek language -- Style Historiography Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Laudatory poetry, Greek Literary style Narration (Rhetoric) Odes, Greek Olympic games (Ancient) in literature Rhetoric, Ancient Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. -- Historiography Greece Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2006278980 ISBN 9780191530357 0191530352

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