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

Friedrich Enno: Praise poetry in distress? : melancholy and criticism in Pindar’s Isthmian 7. In: Sapiens ubique civis, (2). pp. 9-43. (2021)

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Abstract

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.

Item Type: Article
Journal or Publication Title: Sapiens ubique civis
Date: 2021
Volume: 2
ISSN: 2732-317X
Page Range: pp. 9-43
Language: English
Publisher: University of Szeged
Place of Publication: Szeged
Event Title: Sapiens ubique civis (7.) (2019) (Szeged)
Related URLs: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/74682/
DOI: 10.14232/suc.2021.2.9-43
Uncontrolled Keywords: Görög irodalom - költészet, Klasszika-filológia
Additional Information: Bibliogr.: p. 37-39. és a lábjegyzetekben ; összefoglalás angol nyelven
Subjects: 06. Humanities
06. Humanities > 06.02. Languages and Literature
Date Deposited: 2022. Apr. 01. 13:11
Last Modified: 2022. Apr. 01. 13:11
URI: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/74861

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