Olympian Odes. Pythian Odes（Loeb Classical Library）

品达：皮托竞技胜利者颂（洛布古典丛书）（原文希英对照版）

Pindar

基本信息

Format Hardback | 416 pages

Dimensions 121 x 165 x 24mm | 312g

Publication date 15 Apr 1997

Publisher HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Imprint LOEB

Publication City/Country Cambridge, Mass, United States

Language English

Edition Annotated

Edition Statement Annotated ed

Illustrations note geneal.tables, maps

ISBN10 0674995643

ISBN13 9780674995642

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

在希腊抒情诗人中，品达(公元前519-438年)在昆提兰看来是“迄今为止最伟大的抒情诗人”;贺拉斯评价他“是赢得阿波罗桂冠的人”。古人对他的尊敬也许就是他大部分作品被精心保存下来的原因。大多数希腊抒情诗传到我们这代都是零零散散的，但品达的诗中有近四分之一是完整的。威廉·h·瑞斯给我们翻译了两卷新版本和四部胜利颂歌的译本，以及品达其他诗歌的残存片段。像西蒙尼德斯和巴希利德斯一样，品达为获奖运动员精心制作了颂歌，供歌手、舞者和音乐家公开表演。他的45首胜利颂歌是为了庆祝在四大希腊活动，即奥林匹克运动会、庇提安(德尔菲)运动会、尼米亚运动会和地峡运动会，这些体育竞赛中的胜利。在这些复杂的诗歌中，品达以神的恩宠、人类的失败、英雄传说和希腊贵族社会的道德理想为背景，纪念运动员和强大的统治者的成就。Race为每首颂歌撰写了简要介绍和完整的脚注，指导读者理解这些诗歌。他的新的Loeb Pindar也包含重要片段的注释和翻译，有赞美诗，dihyrambs，少女之歌和挽歌。

Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (c.519-438 BC) was "by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration" in Quintilian's view; Horace judged him "sure to win Apollo's laurels". The esteem of the ancients may help explain why a good portion of his work was carefully preserved. Most of the Greek lyric poets come down to us only in bits and pieces, but nearly a quarter of Pindar's poems survive complete. William H. Race now brings us, in two volumes, a new edition and translation of the four books of victory odes, along with surviving fragments of Pindar's other poems. Like Simonides and Bacchylides, Pindar wrote elaborate odes in honour of prize-winning athletes for public performance by singers, dancers and musicians. His 45 victory odes celebrate triumphs in athletic contests at the four great Panhellenic festivals: the Olympic, Pythian (at Delphi), Nemean, and Isthmian games. In these complex poems, Pindar commemorates the achievement of athletes and powerful rulers against the backdrop of divine favour, human failure, heroic legend and the moral ideals of aristocratic Greek society. Race provides brief intoductions to each ode and full explanatory footnotes, offering the reader guidance to these often difficult poems. His new Loeb Pindar also contains an annotated edition and translation of significant fragments, including hymns, paeans, dihyrambs, maiden songs and dirges.

作者简介

William H. Race是北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的Paddison古典文学名誉教授。

William H. Race is Paddison Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.