Pindar's Paeans

Pindar's Paeans
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Publisher : Clarendon Press
Total Pages : 580
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ISBN-10 : 0198143818
ISBN-13 : 9780198143819
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Download or read book Pindar's Paeans written by Pindar and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and translation of all Pindar's paeans, sacred hymns to Apollo, with a supplement containing fragments from poems of uncertain genre. The lengthy introduction provides a re-evaluation of the poems and examines their place in the song-dance culture of Classical and Hellenistic Greece.


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