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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2014

Apostolos N. Athanassakis
Apostolos N. Athanassakis*
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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What we know of this poetry is woefully inadequate; nor can we ascribe this condition to the paucity of our texts; were a hundred odes to be unearthed tomorrow, we should proceed to assign their contents to the same complacent categories that are the badges of our present ignorance. In dealing with Pindar, misconceptions are the rule: the odes do not have a linear unity; the transitions are abrupt; the poet devotes much time to his personal preoccupations, triumphs and embarrassments, as well as to irrelevancies of other kinds. These myths have arisen from a failure to understand the conventional aspects of choral communication.

(Elroy L. Bundy on Pindar, Studio Pindarica I)

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Ramus , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , 1992 , pp. 1 - 10
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Copyright © Aureal Publications 1992

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