Pindar and the Poetics of Permanence

Departing from prevailing approaches to early Greek lyric which focus on the perspective of its original performance contexts, this volume offers the first book-length study devoted to the rhetoric and realities of literary permanence in early Greek poetry. Taking Pindar as its focus, it explores how the odes simultaneously address their first and later audiences, and describes how the poet’s vision of his literary world shaped his work and illuminates the context within which he anticipated its permanence.