Pindaric metre: the 'other half'
Auteur :
Itsumi, Kiichiro
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780199229611
Date de publication :
18 déc. 2008
Dimensions :
22,4 x 14,5 x 3,1 cm
Poids :
707 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Pindar is one of the greatest Greek poets, but the metre of about half of his odes is very obscure. This study presents a convincing new analysis of their metre, together with discussions of stanzaic structure, of textual problems, and of particular lines in the stanza and their exploitation within the text.