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Author: Henry Spelman 

Recent scholarship on early Greek lyric has been primarily concerned with the immediate contexts of its first performance. This volume instead turns its attention to the rhetoric and realities of poetic permanence. Taking Pindar and archaic Greek literary culture as its focus, it offers a new reading of Pindar’s victory odes which explores not only how they were received by those who first experienced them, but also what they can mean to later audiences. Part One of the discussion investigates Pindar’s relationship to both of these audiences, demonstrating how his epinicia address the listeners present at their premiere performance and also a broader secondary audience across space and time. It argues that a full appreciation of these texts involves taking both perspectives into account. Part Two describes how Pindar engages with a wide variety of other poetry, particularly earlier lyric, in order to situate his work both within an immanent poetic history and a contemporary poetic culture. It shows how Pindar’s vision of the world shaped the meaning of his work and illuminates the context within which he anticipated its permanence. The book offers new insights into the texts themselves and invites us to rethink early Greek poetic culture through a combination of historical and literary perspectives.

Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence 1st Table of contents:

Part One: Pindar’s Audiences
Introduction to Part One
I. Secondary Audiences
1. Knowledge of first performance
2. Knowledge of external realities
3. Difficult pleasures
4. Orality and writing
II. Vital Light in Isthmian4
III. Event and Artefact: From Performance to Permanence
1. Isthmian 2.43–8
2. Olympian 10.91–6
3. Bacchylides 13.220–31
4. Pindar fr. 52o
5. Nemean 3.76–84
6. Bacchylides 3.90–8
7. Conclusions
IV. The Poetics of Permanence
1. Time travel and tradition: Pythian 1
2. The victor’s perspective: Nemean 4
3. Epinician lessons: Pythian 6
4. Epic analogues: Pythian 3
5. Epigrammatic interactions: Nemean 5
6. Interwoven perspectives: Nemean 7 and Paean 6
V. Genre and Tradition
1. Genre
2. Tradition
3. Coda
Part Two: Pindar and the Traditions of Lyric
Introduction to Part Two
VI. The Epinician Past
1. Epinician origins in history: athletics, Ibycus, Simonides
2. Epinician origins in epinician: from revel to literature
3. The flowers of new poems: Olympian 9
VII. The Epinician Present
1. Generic references
2. The poet’s career
3. Patrons and communities
4. Other eulogists
5. Epinician revels
6. Nemean 6
7. Conclusions
VIII. The Lyric Past
1. Lyric history
2. Generic enrichment
3. Conclusions

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