Agonistic Poetry : The Pindaric Mode in Pindar, Horace, Hölderlin, and the English Ode

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993. Contents Preface 1. Poetry and Agōn 2. The Poetry of Reception 3. Vertical and Horizontal 4. Progress and Fall 5. The Hero’s Extension 6. Order and Violence 7. Form and Force Conclusion Appendix: The Text of Olympians 3 and 10 and Pythian 1 Notes Bibliography Index