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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| Dokumentumtípus: | Cikk |
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University of Szeged
Szeged
2021
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| Sorozat: | Sapiens ubique civis
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| Kulcsszavak: | Görög irodalom - költészet, Klasszika-filológia |
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| doi: | 10.14232/suc.2021.2.9-43 |
| Online Access: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/74861 |
| 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. |
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| Terjedelem/Fizikai jellemzők: | 9-43 |
| ISSN: | 2732-317X |