Thucydides and Pindar
Subtitle: historical narrative and the world of Epinikian poetry
By: Simon Hornblower.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
Subjects: Thucydides -- Literary style; Thucydides; Thucydides -- Knowledge -- Literature; Pindar -- Appreciation -- Greece; Pindar -- Influence; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History -- To 1500; Laudatory poetry, Greek -- History and criticism; Olympic games (Ancient) -- Historiography; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500; Olympic games (Ancient) in literature; Odes -- History and criticism; Greek language -- Style; Athletes in literature; Rhetoric, Ancient; Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [376]-402) and indexes.