Pindar, Song, and Space (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
480
Utgivningsdatum
2019-12-31
Utmärkelser
Winner of PROSE Award for Best Book in Classics 2020 (United States)
Förlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Illustratör/Fotograf
color 31 Illustrations 74 Illustrations black and white
Illustrationer
74 Illustrations, color; 31 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensioner
234 x 168 x 30 mm
Vikt
1090 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781421429786

Pindar, Song, and Space

Towards a Lyric Archaeology

Inbunden,  Engelska, 2019-12-31
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A groundbreaking study of the interaction of poetry, performance, and the built environment in ancient Greece. Winner of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Classics by the Association of American Publishers In this volume, Richard Neer and Leslie Kurke develop a new, integrated approach to classical Greece: a "lyric archaeology" that combines literary and art-historical analysis with archaeological and epigraphic materials. At the heart of the book is the great poet Pindar of Thebes, best known for his magnificent odes in honor of victors at the Olympic Games and other competitions. Unlike the quintessentially personal genre of modern lyric, these poems were destined for public performance by choruses of dancing men. Neer and Kurke go further to show that they were also site-specific: as the dancers moved through the space of a city or a sanctuary, their song would refer to local monuments and landmarks. Part of Pindar's brief, they argue, was to weave words and bodies into elaborate tapestries of myth and geography and, in so doing, to re-imagine the very fabric of the city-state. Pindar's poems, in short, were tools for making sense of space. Recent scholarship has tended to isolate poetry, art, and archaeology. But Neer and Kurke show that these distinctions are artificial. Poems, statues, bronzes, tombs, boundary stones, roadways, beacons, and buildings worked together as a "suite" of technologies for organizing landscapes, cityscapes, and territories. Studying these technologies in tandem reveals the procedures and criteria by which the Greeks understood relations of nearness and distance, "here" and "there"and how these ways of inhabiting space were essentially political. Rooted in close readings of individual poems, buildings, and works of art, Pindar, Song, and Space ranges from Athens to Libya, Sicily to Rhodes, to provide a revelatory new understanding of the world the Greeks builtand a new model for studying the ancient world.

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Richard Neer is the Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Emergence of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture. Leslie Kurke is the Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social Economy.

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Acknowledgments Note on Abbreviations, Texts, and Transliteration Introduction. The Propinquity of Things Part I. Orientations and Local Spaces Chapter 1. Two Spatial Technologies: The Map and the Chorus Chapter 2. Statues, Songs, and Spaces Chapter 3. The Strength of Equipment and the Radiance of Song: Collaborative Effects Chapter 4. Fr. 75 SM and the Politics of Athenian Space Part II. Pindar's Cyrene: Pythians 4, 5, and 9 Chapter 5. Cyrene, a Pindaric Schema Chapter 6. The City, the Body, and the Eye Part III. Pindar's Greece: Olympian 6 and the Spaces of Tyranny Chapter 7. Epigraphy, Architecture, Song: Olympian 6 and Other Gifts Chapter 8. Pindar's Transports Coda. Towards a Lyric Archaeology Appendix. Dating the Porch of the Geloan Treasury at Olympia Notes Bibliography Index Locorum General Index