Pindar's Olympian 1, 1 - 7 and its Relation to Bacchylides 3, 85 - 87
Scholars generally assume that Olympian 1, 1 - 7 and Bacchylides 3, 85 - 87 contain priamels. I argue that these passages do not contain priamels. I suggest that we have thought that these passages contain priamels because we have not recognized Pindar's and Bacchylides' metaphorical langu...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Österreichischen Akademie d. Wissenschaften
[2017]
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Wiener Studien
Year: 2017, Volume: 130, Pages: 7-32 |
RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BE Greco-Roman religions TB Antiquity |
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Summary: | Scholars generally assume that Olympian 1, 1 - 7 and Bacchylides 3, 85 - 87 contain priamels. I argue that these passages do not contain priamels. I suggest that we have thought that these passages contain priamels because we have not recognized Pindar's and Bacchylides' metaphorical language. At Bacchylides 3, 85 - 87, Bacchylides caps Olympian 1, 1 - 7, while making the argument with Hieron, the patron of both Olympian 1 and Bacchylides 3, that Bacchylides is a better poet than Pindar. |
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ISSN: | 1813-3924 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Wiener Studien
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1553/wst130s7 |