The votive character of the pindaric ode and the dedicatory epigrams
Keywords:
epigram, epinikion, religion, ????µ?, offeringAbstract
In this essay I analyze the relationship between material culture and religion as figured in the Pindaric Epinikia and the bonds such relationship allows to establish with dedicatory epigrams and the objects on which these were inscribed. I take into consideration syntactic, semantic and thematic parallelisms between both genres, as well as the characterization of the Pindaric ode as a precious object (ἄγαλµα) fashioned by an artist imbued with a particular skill (σοφία). Finally I study the different actions (dedicate, receive, give) involved in the processes of an object’s consecration to the gods and the ways in which such actions are figured in Pindar´s poems.
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Olympian. En Fearn, D. (ed.). Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry (pp. 257-293). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Athanassaki, L. (2011). Song, politics, and cultural memory: Pindar’s Pythian 7 and the Alcmaeonid temple of Apollo. En: Athanassaki, L. & Bowie, E. (eds.), Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination (pp. 235-268). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.
Athanassaki, L. (2012). Performance and Re-Performance: The Siphnian Treasury Evoked (Pindar’s Pythian 6, Olympian 2 and Isthmian 2). En Ágocs, P., Carey, C., Rawles, R. (eds.). Reading the Victory Ode (pp. 134-157). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bouchon, R; Brillet-Dubois, P., Le Meur-Weissman, N. (eds.) (2012). Hymnes de la Grèce Antique: approches littéraires et historiques: Actes du colloque international de Lyon, 19-21 juin 2008. Lyon: Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée.
Bowra, C.M. (1964). Pindar. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bundy, E.L. (1962). Studia Pindarica I & II. Berkeley/Los Angeles: California University Press.
Burnett, A. (1989). Performing Pindar's Odes. Classical Philology 84 (4). 283-293.
Carey, C. (1991), "The Victory Ode in Performance: the case for the chorus". Classical Philology 86 (3). 192-200.
Culler, J. (2015). Theory of the Lyric. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Currie, B. (2013). The Pindaric First Person in Flux. Classical Antiquity 32 (2). 243-282. Recuperado de http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525.
D’ Alessio, G.B. (1994). First person problems in Pindar. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 39. 117-139. Recuperado de http://www.jstor.org/stable/43646843.
Day, J. W. (2010). Archaic Greek Epigram and Dedication: Representation and Reperformance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Day, J.W. (2013). Epigraphic Literacy in Fifth-century Epinician and its Audiences. En Liddel, P., Low, P. (eds.). Inscriptions and their Uses in Greek and Latin Literature (pp. 218-230). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fearn, D. (2017). Pindar’s Eyes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Furley, W.-Bremer, J. M. (2001). Greek Hymns: Selected Cult Songs from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period, Volumes I and II. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Furley, W. (2010). Life in a line: a reading of dedicatory epigrams from the archaic and classical period. En Baumbach, M., Petrovic, A., Petrovic, I. (eds.). Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram (pp. 151-166) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gentili, B. (1979). Polemica anti tirannica (Pind. Pyth. 11; Aesch. Prom.; Hdt. 3.80–81; Thuc. 2, 65, 9). Quaderni Urbinat di Cultura Classica 1. 153–56.
Gildersleeve, B.S. (1965). Pindar. The Olympian and Pythian Odes. Reimpresión de la edición de 1885. Amsterdam.
Hansen, P. A. (1983-1989), Carmina epigraphica graeca saeculorum VIII-V a. Chr. n. [vol. I]... saeculi IV a. Chr. n. [II]. «Texte und Kommentare», 12, 15. Berlin. I.
Heath, M. - Lefkowitz, M. (1991). Epinician performance. Classical Philology 86 (3). 173-191.
Heath, M. (1988), "Receiving the κῶµος : The Context and Performance of Epinician. The American Journal of Philology 109 (2). 180-195.
Kaczko, S. (2016). Archaic and Classical Attic Dedicatory Epigrams. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.
Kurke, L. (1990). The traffic in Praise. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Kurke, L. (1998). The Economy of Kudos. En Dougherty, C., Kurke, L. (eds.). Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece (pp. 131-163). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lefkowitz, M. (1963). The First Person in Pindar. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 67. 177-253. Recuperado de http://www.jstor.org/stable/310824.
Lefkowitz, M. (1995). The First Person in Pindar Reconsidered-Again. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Philology 40. 139-150. Recuperado de http://www.jstor.org/stable/43646580.
O’ Sullivan, P. (2005). Pindar and the Statues of Rhodes. Classical Quarterly 55 (1). 96-104. Recuperado de http://www.jstor.org/stable/3556241.
Schadewaldt, W. (1928). Der Aufbau des pindarischen Epinikion. Darmstadt: Halle a/Saale.
Snell, B. & Maehler, H. (ed.) (1987). Pindarus. Pars I. Epinicia. Leipzig: Teubner.
Steiner, D. (1993). Pindar’s Oggeti Parlanti. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 95. 159-180. Recuperado de http://www.jstor.org/stable/311381
Steiner, D. (1998). Moving images: Fifth Century Victory Monuments and the Athlete’s Allure. Classical Antiquity 17 (1). 123-150. Recuperado de http://www.jstor.org/stable/25011076.
Steiner, D. (2001). Images in mind: Statues in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Thought. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Stripeikis, C. (2018a). Κῶµοι religiosos en el corpus de epinicios pindáricos: Pi. O. 4.6-13 y Pi. O. 13.25-30. En Actas de las VIII Jornadas de Cultura Grecolatina del Sur y III Jornadas Internacionales de Estudios Clásicos y Medievales ‘Palimpsestos’ (pp. 199-206). Bahía Blanca: Editorial de la Universidad Nacional del Sur.
Stripeikis,C. (2018b). El fenómeno de re-performance en el epigrama dedicatorio y en la oda pindárica. Circe, de Clásicos y Modernos 22 (2). 71-82.
Torres, D. (2007). La Escatología en la Lírica de Píndaro y sus Fuentes. Buenos Aires: FFyL, UBA.
Trümpy, C. (2010). Observations on the dedicatory and sepulchral epigrams, and their early history. En Baumbach, M., Petrovic, A., Petrovic, I. (eds.). Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram (pp. 167-179). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Wachter, R. (2010). The origin of epigrams on ‘speaking objects’. En Baumbach M., Petrovic, A., Petrovic, I. (eds.). Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram (pp.250-260). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Willamowitz, U. (1922). Pindaros. Berlin: Berlin Weidmann.
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Stripeikis, C. (2019). The votive character of the pindaric ode and the dedicatory epigrams. Revista De Estudios Clásicos, 47, 209–225. Retrieved from https://revistas.uncu.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/revistaestudiosclasicos/article/view/2633
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