The Traffic in Praise: Pindar and the Poetics of Social EconomyCommissioned to celebrate athletic victories in the first half of the fifth century B.C., Pindar's odes have continued to resist interpretation by modern readers. In The Traffic in Praise, Leslie Kurke offers an engaging new reading of the odes within their rich social context and poetic tradition. |
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Genre Poetics and Social Change | 1 |
Symbolic Capital and the Household | 13 |
The Economy of Praise in the Aristocratic Community | 83 |
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achievement Aeschylus Aiakidai Alcaeus Alcibiades ancestors apoina Apollo Aristagoras aristocratic Arkesilaos athletic victory audience Bacchylides bride Bundy celebration chariot charis civic concrete context crown economic epinikia epinikion expenditure Farnell fellow citizens Finley Gernet gift exchange glory grace Greek Gundert Herakles Herodotus heroes Homeric honor hybris ideology imagery Isthmian kleos kōmos kudos Kyrene Lampon lines marriage megaloprepeia metaphorical Muse myth Nemean Nikomachos Nisetich noble nostos observes occasion Odyssey offers oikos Olympian Panhellenic Panhellenic games passage patron Pelops Pindar Pisistratus poem poet poet's poetic poetry polis political praise prestige proem Pythian recompense ritual scholia Slater social song spheres suggests Thrasyboulos Thucydides Thummer tion top-rank tyrants verb wealth Wilamowitz words xenia Xenokrates Zeus ἀλλ γὰρ δὲ εἰ ἐν ἐς καὶ μὲν μὴ νιν νῦν οἱ ὃς οὐ πόλιν πρὸς σὺν τὰ τε καὶ τὸ τῶν χάριν