Choral Lyric Pindar and Bacchylides
Year: 2012
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Epinician space serves primarily as the setting for events, the exercise of human areta at different times. For the appreciation of the handling of space in epinician it is necessary to recognize three types of narrative in epinician: performance narrative, athletic narrative and mythical narrative. This still excludes gnomai, victory data, victory catalogues, and prayers, as non-narrative elements. The extreme compression of most performance and athletic narrative problematizes their status as narrative, but that is true of some Pindaric mythical narratives as well. The location of athletic narrative - the site of the games - is obvious, but rarely are topographical details furnished. An exception is Carrhotus' dedication of the intact winning chariot in Apollo's temple. The spatial location that most completely and most complexly dominates an ode is Aetna in Pythian. In Bacchylides, Arcadian Lousoi is linked with Italian Metapontum through the transferred cult of Artemis. Keywords:Aetna; Bacchylides; epinician space; ode; Pindar
Source: BRILL eBooks
Author: B.G.F. Currie
Language: English
Topic: Classical Antiquity Studies
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2467448592