In this landmark collection of essays, renowned classicist Charles Segal offers detailed analyses of major texts from archaic and early classical Greek poetry - in particular, works of Alcman, Mimnermus, Sappho, Pindar, Bacchylides, and Corinna. Segal provides close readings of …
"The 'Theban eagle', as Thomas Gray famously called him, Pindar 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 c…
A collection of essays dealing with different aspects of the fifth-century BC history and culture of the Greek island of Aegina, famous for its magnificent architecture and sculpture, and for its inhabitants' patronage of some of the greatest Classical poets.
Victory odes
by Pindarus, Willcock, Malcolm Maurice
fromCambridge Greek and Latin classics
