{"product_id":"pindar-song-and-space-9781421429786","title":"Pindar Song and Space","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA groundbreaking study of the interaction of poetry, performance, and the built environment in ancient Greece.   Winner of the PROSE Award for Best Book in Classics by the Association of American PublishersIn this volume, Richard Neer and Leslie Kurke develop a new, integrated approach to classical Greece: a lyric archaeology that combines literary and art-historical analysis with archaeological and epigraphic materials. At the heart of the book is the great poet Pindar of Thebes, best known for his magnificent odes in honor of victors at the Olympic Games and other competitions. Unlike the quintessentially personal genre of modern lyric, these poems were destined for public performance by choruses of dancing men. Neer and Kurke go further to show that they were also site-specific: as the dancers moved through the space of a city or a sanctuary, their song would refer to local monuments and landmarks. Part of Pindar's brief, they argue, was to weave words and bodies into elaborate tape\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eNote on Abbreviations, Texts, and Transliteration \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. The Propinquity of Things \u003cbr\u003ePart I. Orientations and Local Spaces \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Two Spatial Technologies: The Map and the Chorus \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Statues, Songs, and Spaces \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. The Strength of Equipment and the Radiance of Song: Collaborative Effects \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Fr. 75 SM and the Politics of Athenian Space \u003cbr\u003ePart II. Pindar's Cyrene: Pythians 4, 5, and 9\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Cyrene, a Pindaric Schema \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. The City, the Body, and the Eye \u003cbr\u003ePart III. Pindar's Greece: Olympian 6 and the Spaces of Tyranny\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Epigraphy, Architecture, Song: Olympian 6 and Other Gifts \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Pindar's Transports \u003cbr\u003eCoda. Towards a Lyric Archaeology\u003cbr\u003eAppendix. Dating the Porch of the Geloan Treasury at Olympia\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex Locorum\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529536512343,"sku":"9781421429786","price":55.01,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421429786.jpg?v=1731876003","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pindar-song-and-space-9781421429786","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}