{"product_id":"fashioning-immortality-laura-massetti-9783119147699","title":"Fashioning Immortality: Comparative Studies in Three Pindaric Odes","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book is an interdisciplinary study on \u003cem\u003eP\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eythian Three, Nemean Three \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Nemean Five\u003c\/em\u003e, three Pindaric epinicians, which share a special use of the word τέκτων, 'fashioner'. In these victory odes, the term τέκτων refers to creators of \u003cem\u003eimmaterial \u003c\/em\u003eobjects and occurs close to the first and\/or the final words of the poems, in connection with key themes, namely: health, poetry, choral performance, movement as opposed to stasis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe study shows that structures in which Pindaric metaphors are found have parallels in Indo-European languages of ancient attestation: Old Indic and Avestan. In doing so, the book casts new light on Pindar's language and the stylistic features of his odes, which are in a relation of historical continuity with phraseological and structural characteristics of religious hymns of Ancient India and Iran. The study reveals that *\u003cem\u003etetƙ-\u003c\/em\u003emetaphors and \"*\u003cem\u003etetƙ-\u003c\/em\u003ecompositions\", i.e. metaphors and ring-compositions built by means of repetitions of \"*\u003cem\u003etetƙ-\u003c\/em\u003ewords\" (Vedic \u003cem\u003etakṣ\u003c\/em\u003e, Avestan \u003cem\u003etas\u003c\/em\u003e, and Greek τέκτων), have a deep meta-thematic relevance in three linguistically related traditions and are an inherited phraseological stylistic feature common to Ancient Greek and Indo-Iranian poetic creations.T\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Massetti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3119147699\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783119147699\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Laura Massetti","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47580046098687,"sku":"9783119147699","price":131.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fd00efc1-e973-4c67-91e8-0d9c86aefb80.jpg?v=1763878422","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fashioning-immortality-laura-massetti-9783119147699","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}