Pindar's songs for young athletes of Aigina

Pindar's songs for young athletes of Aigina /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Burnett, Anne Pippin, 1925-2017
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:	Pindar > Criticism and interpretation. Pindar. Athletes in literature. Songs, Greek > History and criticism. Criticism and interpretation. Songs, Greek. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	View Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Aigina and the Aiakids
The pediments of the Aphaia temple
Contest and coming of age
Nemean 5: Peleus' wedding song
Isthmian 6: The engendering of Ajax
Isthmian 5: Achilles and Telephos
Isthmian 8: A monster avoided
Nemean 4: Wrestling with a form-changer
Nemean 3: The education of Achilles
Nemean 6: Athletes as heroes
Nemean 8: Slander and praise
Nemean 7: Neoptolemos at Delphi
Olympian 8: Aiakos at the walls of Troy
Pythian 8: A phantom's dream
Afternote: the audience as participant.