The Traffic in Praise by Leslie Kurke

The Traffic in Praise

Leslie Kurke

268 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

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Pindar's epinikia were poems commissioned to celebrate athletic victories in the first half of the fifth century BCE. Drawing on the insights of interpretive anthropology and cultural history, Leslie Kurke examines the odes as public performances ...

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