Pindar's Paeans - A Reading of the Fragments with a Survey of the Genre (Hardcover, Reissue)

This is the first full scholarly edition of the paeans, or sacred hymns to Apollo, written by the famous classical poet Pindar. They are the most celebrated examples of a genre which once held a central place in the song-dance culture of classical Greece - a unique and haunting legacy of both early classical poetry and ancient religion. Some fragments of these poems were first published within just the last five years.