Pindar’s ›First Pythian Ode‹ (eBook)

Text, Introduction and Commentary

Almut Fries (Autor)

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2023
266 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-112957-0 (ISBN)

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This is the first large-scale edition with introduction and commentary of Pindar's First Pythian Ode. Composed for Hieron of Syracuse to mark his Delphic chariot victory of 470 BC and his recent foundation of the city of Aetna, the poem is not only a literary masterpiece, but also of central importance for our understanding of Greek history and culture in the early fifth century BC. As our only contemporary written source for the Sicilian Wars against the Carthaginians and Etruscans, it stands on a level with Simonides' Plataea Elegy and Aeschylus' Persians on the Persian Wars. This is a period where epoch-making Greek victories in the east and west were celebrated by the greatest poets in a way that reveals much about the atmosphere in which their works were created and received.

The book offers a new edition of the text with a detailed introduction and commentary, which discuss textual problems, language, metre and transmission as well as a variety of literary questions, the historical background and the early performance and reception history of the ode. It will be of interest to scholars and students of archaic and classical Greek poetry and of Greek history of the early fifth century BC.

Almut Fries, The Queen's College, Oxford, England.

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Abbreviations

Abbreviations of ancient authors, work titles and modern periodicals largely follow LSJ and L’Année Philologique, except that I omit ‘Pindar’ in quotations from the epinicia and ‘Homer’ in quotations from the Iliad and Odyssey. The fragments of Pindar are cited from B. Snell and H. Maehler (eds.), Pindarus. Pars II. Fragmenta. Indices (Munich and Leipzig 1989) and those of Bacchylides from H. Maehler (ed.), Bacchylides. Carmina cum Fragmentis (Munich and Leipzig 112003). Translations of Pindar (other than Pythian 1) and Bacchylides are taken from the Loeb editions of Race (1997) and Campbell (Greek Lyric IV. Bacchylides, Corinna, and Others, Cambridge, MA, and London 1992), both occasionally adapted. The following abbreviations are also used:

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Beekes

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Bergk

Th. Bergk (ed.), Poetae Lyrici Graeci (Leipzig 41878-82)

Billerbeck

M. Billerbeck (ed.), Stephani Byzantii Ethnica. Recensuit, Germanice vertit adnotationibus indicibusque instruxit, 5 vols. (Berlin and Boston 2006-17)

BK	J. Latacz, A. Bierl et al. (eds.), Homers Ilias. Gesamtkommentar, auf der Grundlage der Ausgabe von Ameis-Hentze-Cauer (1868-1913), 14 vols. to date (Munich, Leipzig, Berlin, New York and Boston 2000-) = Basler Kommentar

BMus.Inscr.

E. L. Hicks et al. (eds.), The Collection of Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the British Museum, 4 vols. (Oxford 1874-1916)

Braswell

B. K. Braswell (ed.), Didymos of Alexandria. Commentary on Pindar. Edited and Translated with Introduction, Explanatory Notes, and a Critical Catalogue of Didymos’ Works (Basel 2013)

CA	J. U. Powell (ed.), Collectanea Alexandrina (Oxford 1925)

Calame

C. Calame, Etymologicum genuinum. Les citations de poètes lyriques (Rome 1970)

Campbell

D. A. Campbell (ed.), Greek Lyric II. Anacreon, Anacreontea, Early Choral Lyric (Cambridge, MA, and London 1988)

CEG	P. A. Hansen (ed.), Carmina Epigraphica Graeca, 2 vols. (Berlin and New York 1983-9)

Chantry

M. Chantry (ed.), Scholia in Aristophanem. Pars III: Scholia in Thesmophoriazusas, Ranas, Ecclesiazusas et Plutum. Fasc. Ia: continens Scholia vetera in Aristophanis Ranas (Groningen 1999)

Consbruch

M. Consbruch (ed.), Hephaestionis Enchiridion cum commentariis veteribus (Leipzig 1906)

CTH	E. Laroche, Catalogue des textes hittites, Suppl. 1 Revue Hittite et Asianique 30, 94-133, Paris 1971; Suppl. 2 Revue Hittite et Asianique 33, 63-71, Paris 1975 (continued at https://www.hethport.uni-wuerzburg.de/CTH/index_en.php)

De Falco

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DELG	P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque. Histoire des mots, avec un Supplément sous la direction de A. Blanc, C. de Lamberterie, J.-L. Perpillou (Paris 1999)

Di Gregorio

L. Di Gregorio (ed.), Scholia vetera in Hesiodi Theogoniam (Milan 1975)

DK	H. Diels and W. Kranz (eds.), Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 3 vols. (Berlin 61951-2)

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H. Cancik, H. Schneider et al. (eds.), Der Neue Pauly. Enzyklopädie der Antike, 19 vols. (Stuttgart 1996-2003) = Brill’s New Pauly. Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World (Leiden 2002-)

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Erbse

H. Erbse (ed.), Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem (scholia vetera), 7 vols. (Berlin 1969-88)

FD 3.1

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FGE	D. L. Page (ed.), Further Greek Epigrams, revised and prepared for publication by R. D. Dawe and J. Diggle (Cambridge 1981)

FGrH	F. Jacoby et al. (eds.), Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker (Berlin, Leiden, Boston and Cologne 1923-)

Finglass

M. Davies and P. J. Finglass (eds.), Stesichorus. The Poems (Cambridge 2014) (introduction and fragments)

GDI	F. Bechtel, H. Collitz et al. (eds.), Sammlung der griechischen Dialekt-Inschriften, 4 vols. (Göttingen 1884-1915)

GEF

M. L. West (ed.), Greek Epic Fragments (Cambridge, MA, and London 2003)<fnote>References to the editions of Davies (Epicorum Graecorum Fragmenta, Göttingen 1988) and Bernabé (Poetae Epici Graeci. Testimonia et Fragmenta I, Stuttgart and Leipzig 21996) can be found in West’s concordance (pp. 299-308).</fnote>

GEW	H. Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (Heidelberg 1960-70)

GG	G. Uhlig, R. Schneider, A. Hilgard and A. Lentz (eds.), Grammatici Graeci, 4 vols. in 10 parts (Leipzig 1867-1910)

Gow	A. S. F. Gow (ed.), The Greek Bucolic Poets (Cambridge 1953)

GP	J. D. Denniston, The Greek Particles, rev. K. J. Dover (Oxford 21954)

Harder

A. Harder (ed.), Callimachus. Aetia, 2 vols. (Oxford 2012)

HE	A. S. F. Gow and D. L. Page (eds.), The Greek Anthology. Hellenistic Epigrams,...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.6.2023
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Latein / Altgriechisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Hieron I of Syracuse • Hieron I. von Syrakus • sicily • Siegesode • Sizilien • Victory Ode
• ISBN-10: 3-11-112957-8 / 3111129578
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-112957-0 / 9783111129570