TY  - BOOK
AU  - Segal,Charles
TI  - Pindar's Mythmaking: The Fourth Pythian Ode 
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9780691610757
AV  - PA4274.P5 S44 1986
U1  - 884/.01 
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Mythology, Greek, in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; Part I. Medea's Craft and Apollo's Wisdom --; Introduction --; 1. Heroic Guile: The Craft of the Hero and the Art of the Poet --; 2. The Language of Gods and Men --; 3. Trials of the Hero: Sexuality, Generational Passage, and the Seeds of Creation --; 4. Mythic Patterns I: Wandering and Foundation --; 5. Mythic Patterns II: The Voyage Beyond and Primordial Beginnings --; 6. The Wisdom of Oedipus --; Part II. Cultural Models: Language, Writing, and Sexual Conflict --; 7. Poetry and/or Ideology --; 8. Pindar's Post-Oral Poetics: Between Inspiration and Textuality --; 9. Sexual Conflict and Ideology --; 10. Conclusion. Chionos: Time and Structure --; Select Bibliography --; Index of Works and Passages --; Index of Names and Subjects; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Combining historical and philological method with contemporary literary analysis, this study of Pindar's longest and most elaborate victory ode, the Fourth Pythian, traces the underlying mythical patterns, implicit poetics, and processes of mythopoesis that animate his poetry.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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