Pindar's Mythmaking: The Fourth Pythian Ode
By (author): "Pindar, Charles Segal"
Genres:Classical Studies books
Publish Date:
1986
ISBN0691054738
ISBN139780691054735
AsinPindar's Mythmaking: The Fourth Pythian Ode
Original titlePindar's Mythmaking: The Fourth Pythian Ode
Combining historical and philological method with contemporary literary analysis, this study of Pindar's longest and most elaborate victory ode, the Fourth Pythian, traces the underlying mythical patterns, implicit poetics, and processes of mythopoesis that animate his poetry.