| #753272 in Books | Harvard University Press | 1997-04-15 | 1997-05-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .75 x4.46 x6.60l,.65 | File type: PDF | 416 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| The best place to start reading Pindar|By JZ|Race's 2 volume loeb set is a most useful tool for any reader of Pindar. The introduction in Vol. 1 is clear, concise, and gives a decent overview of the textual transmission. Race also gives a good summary of some Epinician conventions to facilitate Pindar's highly artificial language. Each ode gets some brief introductory comm||[A] translation which is modern, accurate, streamlined, and comprehensible…[which preserves], with a surprising degree of success, a sense of Pindar's artful word order...He may well have produced the best text available...In many respects Race's editio
Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (ca. 518-438 BCE) was "by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration" in Quintilian's view; Horace judged him "sure to win Apollo's laurels." The esteem of the ancients may help explain why a good portion of his work was carefully preserved. Most of the Greek lyric poets come down to us only in bits and pieces, but nearly a quarter of Pindar's poems survive complete. William H. Race now brings us, in two volumes, a new e...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Pindar I: Olympian Odes. Pythian Odes (Loeb Classical Library) (English and Greek Edition) | Pindar. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
