TY - BOOK AU - Pfeijffer,Ilja Leonard TI - Three Aeginetan odes of Pindar: a commentary on Nemean V, Nemean III and Pythian VIII T2 - Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, SN - 9789004351240 AV - PA4276 .P54 1999 U1 - 848/.01 21 PY - 1999/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Pindar KW - Pindar. KW - Nemean odes (Pindar) KW - fast KW - Pythian odes (Pindar) KW - Laudatory poetry, Greek KW - History and criticism KW - Mythology, Greek, in literature KW - Odes, Greek KW - Athletics in literature KW - Games in literature KW - Literature KW - Aigina (Greece : Municipality) KW - In literature KW - Greece KW - Aigina (Municipality) KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 667-698) and indexes; Preliminary Material; Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer --; Introduction; Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer --; Different Readings; Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer --; Nemean V; Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer --; Nemean III; Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer --; Pythian VIII; Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer --; Appendix; Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer --; Bibliography; Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer --; Index of Greek Words Discussed; Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer --; General Index; Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer --; Supplements to Mnemosyne; J. M. Bremer , L. F. Janssen , H. Pinkster , H. W. Pleket , C. J. Ruijgh and P. H. Schrijvers; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - A study of three epinicia of Pindar, which have in common that they celebrate victories of Aeginetan athletes and that they respond to the contemporary political situation in Aegina and to circumstances of the victory. The primary objective of this book is to provide an interpretation of each of the three odes as meaningful, coherent works of the literary art. For each ode, it provides a commentary in which problems of text and interpretation are discussed in detail, a structural and metrical analysis, and an interpretative essay, in which the observations of detail are brought together in order to provide an answer to the question as to how the ode at hand could have functioned as a coherent, meaningful epinicion . The introduction addresses questions of method and provides a description of Pindar's style UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004351240 ER -