Pindar's Poetics of Immortality

Modern scholarship tends to focus on the social, political and economic information that can be gleaned from Pindar''s treatment of the subject of his victory odes - the athlete who brings immortality to his family and polis. In this book, Asya C. Sigelman offers a new approach to the odes, exploring the fact that Pindar''s language and imagery suggest that the athlete''s victory is only a weaker ...