Pindar's Library

Pindar''s Library is the first volume to explore how readers during the Hellenistic period encountered Pindar''s poetry in book form, analysing in detail the role played by Pindar''s literary, cultic, and scholarly reception in affecting readers'' engagement with his epinician odes. The volume examines the poet''s literary devices of encomiastic techniques, mythical narratives, and paraenetic disc...