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Pindar's Songs for Young Athletes of Aigina

Pindar's Songs for Young Athletes of Aigina © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/156852507X195655 Mnemosyne 61 (2008) 306-309 www.brill.nl/mnem De novis libris iudicia Burnett, A.P. 2005. Pindar’s Songs for Young Athletes of Aigina . Oxford, Oxford University Press. 288 p. Pr. €. 90.00. Th is is a well researched and elegantly written book, which attempts to provide an overall study of Pindar’s Aiginetan odes ( N . 5, I . 6, I . 5, I . 8, N . 4, N . 3, N . 6, N . 8, N . 7, O . 8, P . 8). As Burnett (hereafter B.) declares in the Introduction, her aim is not to explore Pindar’s style, beliefs, and ideology, but to offer a close read- ing of his songs for the victors of Aigina, in order “to discover the pleasures taken and the influences felt as a particular audience watched each performance” (p. 5). From the outset B. draws attention to the formal and thematic homogeneity of this group of odes, stressing that their audience must have also cherished common values and beliefs. One of her basic arguments is that all Aiginetan odes “celebrate victors who have not yet reached manhood” (p. 5). To be sure, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Mnemosyne Brill

Pindar's Songs for Young Athletes of Aigina

Pavlou, Maria
Mnemosyne , Volume 61 (2): 306 – Jan 1, 2008
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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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10.1163/156852507X195655
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/156852507X195655 Mnemosyne 61 (2008) 306-309 www.brill.nl/mnem De novis libris iudicia Burnett, A.P. 2005. Pindar’s Songs for Young Athletes of Aigina . Oxford, Oxford University Press. 288 p. Pr. €. 90.00. Th is is a well researched and elegantly written book, which attempts to provide an overall study of Pindar’s Aiginetan odes ( N . 5, I . 6, I . 5, I . 8, N . 4, N . 3, N . 6, N . 8, N . 7, O . 8, P . 8). As Burnett (hereafter B.) declares in the Introduction, her aim is not to explore Pindar’s style, beliefs, and ideology, but to offer a close read- ing of his songs for the victors of Aigina, in order “to discover the pleasures taken and the influences felt as a particular audience watched each performance” (p. 5). From the outset B. draws attention to the formal and thematic homogeneity of this group of odes, stressing that their audience must have also cherished common values and beliefs. One of her basic arguments is that all Aiginetan odes “celebrate victors who have not yet reached manhood” (p. 5). To be sure,

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