Praise poetry in distress? melancholy and criticism in Pindar’s Isthmian 7 /

I am revisiting the old interpretation of Isthmian 7 by A. Boeckh as a melancholy piece and its refutation by D. C. Young. Three passages of Isthmian 7 are analysed and it is found that there is good reason to hold on to Boeckh’s idea of melancholy. In the following, I am asking what premises could...

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Elmentve itt :
Bibliográfiai részletek
Szerző: Friedrich Enno
Testületi szerző: Sapiens ubique civis (7.) (2019) (Szeged)
Dokumentumtípus: Cikk
Megjelent: University of Szeged Szeged 2021
Sorozat:Sapiens ubique civis 2
Kulcsszavak:Görög irodalom - költészet, Klasszika-filológia
Tárgyszavak:
doi:10.14232/suc.2021.2.9-43

Online Access:http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/74861
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Tartalmi kivonat:I am revisiting the old interpretation of Isthmian 7 by A. Boeckh as a melancholy piece and its refutation by D. C. Young. Three passages of Isthmian 7 are analysed and it is found that there is good reason to hold on to Boeckh’s idea of melancholy. In the following, I am asking what premises could give a unified picture of the ode that we have, and I offer two possibilities: either the ode was presented under conditions of crisis for a victory in sports – a personal crisis of Strepsiades and his family or of the nation of Thebes – and therefore had to be a vindication of the victor rather than praise, or the role of the victor’s uncle has been misunderstood in the past and he is not only a fallen warrior but also a cult hero, like B. Currie has suggested, changing our understanding of the ode gravely.
Terjedelem/Fizikai jellemzők:9-43
ISSN:2732-317X