Pindar’s Mythmaking: The Fourth Pythian Ode
Charles Segal
223 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0691054738
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Language: English
Publish: July 21, 1986
Combining historical and philological method with contemporary literary analysis, this study of Pindar’s longest and most elaborate victory ode, the Fourth Pythian, traces the underlying mythical patterns, implicit poetics, and processes of mythopoesis that animate his poetry.