Thucydides and Pindar

New. Simon Hornblower argues for a relationship between Thucydides and Pindar not so far acknowledged in modern scholarship. He argues that ancient critics were right to detect stylistic similarities between these two great exponents of the `severe style' in prose and verse. In Part One he explores the background of epinikian poetry and athletics, the values shared by… Read more about this item

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Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry.

Paperback / softback. New. Thucydides was one of the greatest of the ancient Greek historians and Pindar one of the greatest Greek poets, specializing in celebratory odes for victors in the great games - above all at Olympia. Simon Hornblower puts these two towering figures side-by-side for the first time, demonstrating a thematic and literary kinship.

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