Pindar and the Cult of HeroesOxford University Press, 2005 - 487 σελίδες 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. |
Περιεχόμενα
Introduction CONTENTS | 1 |
PART I | 27 |
Views of Death | 37 |
Mortality and Immortality | 43 |
Hero Cult | 48 |
Uses of the Word heros | 60 |
kleos | 71 |
PART II | 85 |
89 | 173 |
120 | 182 |
PART III | 201 |
Pankration Victor and War Dead | 205 |
The King and his Royal Forebears | 226 |
Locrian Saviour and Cyprian Hero | 258 |
226 | 267 |
xi | 277 |
Heroization of the War Dead | 88 |
8 | 89 |
Heroization of Athletes | 120 |
Theios aner Religious Attitudes to the Living in the Fifth Century | 158 |
41 | 163 |
47 | 166 |
60 | 169 |
71 | 170 |
xii | 279 |
XV | 292 |
Boy Pentathlete and Delphian Hero | 296 |
Fire and Immortality ៦ន | 344 |
Epilogue | 406 |
463 | |
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Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
Achilleus Aegina Aeginetans Amphiaraos Aphrodite Apollo Archaic Arkesilas Asklepios Athenian Athens athletes attested Bacchylides battle Battos Brasidas Bundy Burkert Carey Chamoux Chapter Classical period context Cyrene dead death Delphi Demeter Differently Dioskouroi divine Empedokles epic epinician Euthymos Farnell festival FGrH fifth century BC Gentili gods Greek Hagnon Hellenistic Herakles hero cult Herodotus heroization Hieron historical persons Homer honours Hornblower Iliad interpretation Kearns Kinyras Kroisos Krummen Kurke laudandus laudator Lefkowitz lifetime literal immortality Locri Locrian Loraux Lysandros Malkin mortal myth mythical Nemean Neoptolemos Odyssey Olympian Paean Paus Pausanias Pelops performed Pindar Pindar's odes Plat Plataea Plut Plutarch poem poet poetry posthumous pyre Pythian received cult religious religious prostitution Rutherford sacrifices seems Sogenes song Spartan status Strepsiades thearion Thucydides Thummer Tyrtaeus verses Zeus γὰρ δὲ ἐν ἐς καὶ μὲν οἱ τε τῇ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τὸν τοῦ τοὺς τῷ τῶν ὡς
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