Pindar and the Sublime: Greek Myth, Reception, and Lyric Experience by Fowler, Robert L.

Pindar and the Sublime: Greek Myth, Reception, and Lyric Experience (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781788311144)

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Pindar and the Sublime: Greek Myth, Reception, and Lyric Experience by Fowler, Robert L.

Pindar and the Sublime: Greek Myth, Reception, and Lyric Experience

$95.00
Pindar and the Sublime: Greek Myth, Reception, and Lyric Experience by Fowler, Robert L.

Pindar and the Sublime: Greek Myth, Reception, and Lyric Experience

$95.00
Format: Hardcover
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Pindar-the 'Theban eagle', as Thomas Gray famously called him-has often been taken as the archetype of the sublime poet: soaring into the heavens on wings of language and inspired by visions of eternity. In this much-anticipated new study, Robert Fowler asks in what ways the concept of the sublime can still guide a reading of the greatest of the Greek lyric poets. Working with ancient and modern treatments of the topic, especially the poetry and writings of Friedrich Hderlin (1770-1843), arguably Pindar's greatest modern reader, he develops the case for an aesthetic appreciation of Pindar's odes as literature.

Building on recent trends in criticism, he shifts the focus away from the first performance and the orality of Greek culture to reception and the experience of Pindar's odes as text. This change of emphasis yields a fresh discussion of many facets of Pindar's astonishing art, including the relation of the poems to their occasions, performativity, the poet's persona, his imagery, and his myths. Consideration of Pindar's views on divinity, transcendence, time, and the limits of language reveals him to be not only a great writer but a great thinker.

Author: Robert L. Fowler
ISBN-10: 1788311140
ISBN-13: 9781788311144
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2022
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
By Robert L. Fowler
By Robert L. Fowler
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Robert L. Fowler is Wills Professor of Greek Emeritus at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of The Nature of Early Greek Lyric: Three Preliminary Studies (1987) and Early Greek Mythography (2 volumes, 2000-2013). He has published widely on Greek poetry, mythology, historiography, reception and the history of Classical scholarship. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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