Fashioning Immortality : Comparative Studies in Three Pindaric Odes
Fashioning Immortality : Comparative Studies in Three Pindaric Odes
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Author(s): Massetti, Laura
ISBN No.: 9783119147699
Pages: 330
Year: 202602
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 182.15
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Status: Available (Forthcoming)

The book is an interdisciplinary study on Pythian Three, Nemean Three and Nemean Five, three Pindaric epinicians, which share a special use of the word τκτων, 'fashioner'. In these victory odes, the term τκτων refers to creators of immaterial objects and occurs close to the first and/or the final words of the poems, in connection with key themes, namely: health, poetry, choral performance, movement as opposed to stasis. The study shows that structures in which Pindaric metaphors are found have parallels in Indo-European languages of ancient attestation: Old Indic and Avestan. In doing so, the book casts new light on Pindar's language and the stylistic features of his odes, which are in a relation of historical continuity with phraseological and structural characteristics of religious hymns of Ancient India and Iran. The study reveals that *tet-metaphors and "*tet-compositions", i.e. metaphors and ring-compositions built by means of repetitions of "*tet-words" (Vedic tak, Avestan tas, and Greek τκτων), have a deep meta-thematic relevance in three linguistically related traditions and are an inherited phraseological stylistic feature common to Ancient Greek and Indo-Iranian poetic creations.T.



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