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Pindar and the Cult of Heroes

Currie Bruno
Innbundet / 2005 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780199277247
Published
2005
Publisher
Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press
Weight
811 gr
Height
224 mm
Width
146 mm
Thickness
34 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
504

Author
Currie Bruno

Biographical note

Bruno Currie is Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, Oriel College, Oxford University.

Pindar and the Cult of Heroes

Currie Bruno
Innbundet / 2005 / Engelsk
Currie Bruno
Innbundet / 2005 / Engelsk
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valuable and challenging book

Kathryn Morgan, Hermathena

In this stimulating first book, Bruno Currie presents a well-defined, well-informed and not uncontroversial study.

Deborah Boedeker, Journal of Hellenic Studies

...any study, which questions traditional scholarly notions of what went on in Greek religion, is refreshing...Currie's study has certainly opened up new ways of thinking about both the purpose and the institution of hero-cults, which will hopefully stimulate yet further work on Greek heroes.

Gunnel Ekroth, Kernos

Pindar and the Cult of Heroes combines a study of Greek culture and religion (hero cult) with a literary-critical study of Pindar's epinician poetry. It looks at hero cult generally, but focuses especially on heroization in the 5th century BC. There are individual chapters on the heroization of war dead, of athletes, and on the religious treatment of the living in the 5th century. Hero cult, Bruno Currie argues, could be anticipated, in different ways, in a person's lifetime. Epinician poetry too should be interpreted in the light of this cultural context; fundamentally, this genre explores the patron's religious status. The book features extensive studies of Pindar's Pythians 2, 3, 5, Isthmian 7, and Nemean 7.
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Taking a different look at the veneration and cult of heroic men, living and dead, in ancient Greece, this book finds the roots of the Hellenistic ruler cult, and hence Roman emperor cult, in the 5th century BC. It also offers a re-evaluation of the epinician genre and extensive studies of five of Pindar's odes.
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I. SOME THEMES IN HERO CULT: HOMER AND PINDAR ; II. HEROIZATION IN THE FIFTH CENTURY BC ; III. FIVE ODES OF PINDAR
Offers a re-evaluation of hero cult in ancient Greece Puts forward a new interpretation of Pindar's epinician poetry Combines cultural-historical with literary perspectives
Bruno Currie is Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, Oriel College, Oxford University.
Offers a re-evaluation of hero cult in ancient Greece Puts forward a new interpretation of Pindar's epinician poetry Combines cultural-historical with literary perspectives

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valuable and challenging book

Kathryn Morgan, Hermathena

In this stimulating first book, Bruno Currie presents a well-defined, well-informed and not uncontroversial study.

Deborah Boedeker, Journal of Hellenic Studies

...any study, which questions traditional scholarly notions of what went on in Greek religion, is refreshing...Currie's study has certainly opened up new ways of thinking about both the purpose and the institution of hero-cults, which will hopefully stimulate yet further work on Greek heroes.

Gunnel Ekroth, Kernos

Pindar and the Cult of Heroes combines a study of Greek culture and religion (hero cult) with a literary-critical study of Pindar's epinician poetry. It looks at hero cult generally, but focuses especially on heroization in the 5th century BC. There are individual chapters on the heroization of war dead, of athletes, and on the religious treatment of the living in the 5th century. Hero cult, Bruno Currie argues, could be anticipated, in different ways, in a person's lifetime. Epinician poetry too should be interpreted in the light of this cultural context; fundamentally, this genre explores the patron's religious status. The book features extensive studies of Pindar's Pythians 2, 3, 5, Isthmian 7, and Nemean 7.
Read more
Taking a different look at the veneration and cult of heroic men, living and dead, in ancient Greece, this book finds the roots of the Hellenistic ruler cult, and hence Roman emperor cult, in the 5th century BC. It also offers a re-evaluation of the epinician genre and extensive studies of five of Pindar's odes.
Read more
I. SOME THEMES IN HERO CULT: HOMER AND PINDAR ; II. HEROIZATION IN THE FIFTH CENTURY BC ; III. FIVE ODES OF PINDAR
Offers a re-evaluation of hero cult in ancient Greece Puts forward a new interpretation of Pindar's epinician poetry Combines cultural-historical with literary perspectives
Bruno Currie is Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, Oriel College, Oxford University.
Offers a re-evaluation of hero cult in ancient Greece Puts forward a new interpretation of Pindar's epinician poetry Combines cultural-historical with literary perspectives

Product details

ISBN
9780199277247
Published
2005
Publisher
Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press
Weight
811 gr
Height
224 mm
Width
146 mm
Thickness
34 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
504

Author
Currie Bruno

Biographical note

Bruno Currie is Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature, Oriel College, Oxford University.

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