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Pindar: The Odes & Selected Fragmts

Pindar: The Odes & Selected Fragmts

by RichardStoneman (Editor), Pindar (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

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This highly acclaimed translation of Pindar's odes is by G S Conway, who is a highly distinguished classical scholar. The religious poems and fragments have been newly translated by Richard Stoneman.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 352
 Edition: New Ed
 Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 06 Oct 1997
ISBN 10: 0460876740
ISBN 13: 9780460876742
Book Overview: *Collects, for the first time in one volume, translations of all of Pindar's poems and many of those that have survived only in fragment form. *The most comprehensive and up-to-date commentary on all the works of Pindar nowavailable. *Editor presents latest scholarship in introduction, notes, bibliography, maps, and chronology of Pindar's life and times.

Author Bio
Richard Stoneman is an Oxford trained classicist with a thorough knowledge of ancient Greece, its language and history; he has also published many books on modern Greece and is familiar with the sources from the Middle Ages and the modern period. He is the author of A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece, A Traveller's History of Turkey, A luminous Land: Artists Discover Greece. He is a frequent visitor to Greece and gets withdrawal symptoms if he doesn't go to Athens at least once a year.