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The Traffic in Praise - Couverture souple

Kurke, Leslie

 
9781939926005: The Traffic in Praise
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1939926009 ISBN 13 : 9781939926005
Editeur : California Classical Studies, 2013

Synopsis

Pindar’s epinikia were poems commissioned to celebrate athletic victories in the first half of the fifth century BCE. Drawing on the insights of interpretive anthropology and cultural history, Leslie Kurke examines the odes as public performances which enact the reintegration of the athletic victor into his heterogeneous communities. These communities—the victor’s household, his aristocratic class, and his city—represent competing, sometimes conflicting interests, which the epinikian poet must satisfy to accomplish his project of reintegration. Kurke considers in particular the different modes of exchange in which Pindar’s poetry participated: the symbolic economy of the household, gift exchange between aristocratic houses, and the workings of monetary exchange within the city. Her analysis produces an archaeology of Pindar’s poetry, exposing multiple systems of imagery that play on different shared cultural models to appeal to the various segments of the poet’s audience.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Pindar's epinikia were poems commissioned to celebrate athletic victories in the first half of the fifth century Bce. Drawing on the insights of interpretive anthropology and cultural history, Leslie Kurke examines the odes as public performances which enact the reintegration of the athletic victor into his heterogeneous communities. These communities-the victor's household, his aristocratic class, and his city-represent competing, sometimes conflicting interests, which the epinikian poet must satisfy to accomplish his project of reintegration. Kurke considers in particular the different modes of exchange in which Pindar's poetry participated: the symbolic economy of the household, gift exchange between aristocratic houses, and the workings of monetary exchange within the city. Her analysis produces an archaeology of Pindar's poetry, exposing multiple systems of imagery that play on different shared cultural models to appeal to the various segments of the poet's audience.

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Éditeur
California Classical Studies
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1939926009
ISBN 13 
9781939926005
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
267
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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