Pindar and Greek religion : theologies of mortality in the Victory Odes

著者

• Eisenfeld, Hanne

書誌事項

Pindar and Greek religion : theologies of mortality in the Victory Odes

Hanne Eisenfeld

Cambridge University Press, 2022

• : hardback

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-269) and indexes

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Pindar's victory songs teem with divinity. By exploring them within the lived religious landscapes of the fifth century BCE, Hanne Eisenfeld demonstrates that they are in fact engaged in theological work. Focusing on a set of mythical figures whose identities blur the boundaries between mortality and immortality (Herakles, the Dioskouroi, Amphiaraos, and Asklepios), she newly interprets the value of immortality in the epinician corpus. Pindar's depiction of these figures responds to and shapes contemporary religious experience and revalues mortality as a prerequisite for the glory found in victory. The book combines close reading and philological analysis with religious historical approaches to Pindar's songs and his world. It highlights the inextricability of Greek literature and Greek religion, and models a novel approach to Greek lyric poetry at the intersection of these fields.

目次

• 1. Pindar mythologus and theologus
• 2. Herakles looks back at the world
• 3. The Dioskouroi in existential crisis
• 4. Exaltation at Akragas: Herakles, the Dioskouroi, and Theron
• 5. The isolation of Amphiaraos
• 6. Asklepios and the limits of the possible
• 7. An invitation.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BC15304222
• ISBN:
  • 9781108831192
• LCCN: 2022003223
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Cambridge
• ページ数/冊数: xv, 277 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 884.01
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Pindar -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Greek poetry -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Mythology, Greek, in literature
  • LCSH : Heroes in literature
  • LCSH : Gods in literature