Truth and Genre in Pindar
dc.contributor.author | Park, Arum | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-01-27T01:03:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-01-27T01:03:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-05 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Arum Park (2013). TRUTH AND GENRE IN PINDAR. The Classical Quarterly, 63, pp 17-36 doi: 10.1017/S000983881200078X | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0009-8388 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622193 | |
dc.description.abstract | By convention epinician poetry claims to be both obligatory and truthful, yet in the intersection of obligation and truth lies a seeming paradox: the poet presents his poetry as commissioned by a patron but also claims to be unbiased enough to convey the truth. In Slater's interpretation Pindar reconciles this paradox by casting his relationship to the patron as one of guest-friendship: when he declares himself a guest-friend of the victor, he agrees to the obligation ‘a) not to be envious of his xenos and b) to speak well of him. The argumentation is: Xenia excludes envy, I am a xenos, therefore I am not envious and consequently praise honestly’. Slater observes that envy may foster bias against the patron, but the problem of pro-patron bias remains: does the poet's friendship with and obligation to his patron produce praise at the expense of truth? | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | en |
dc.relation.url | https://doi.org/10.1017/S000983881200078X | en |
dc.rights | © The Classical Association 2013. | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.subject | Pindar | en |
dc.subject | Truth | en |
dc.subject | Genre | en |
dc.subject | Greek Poetry | en |
dc.subject | Archaic Poetry | en |
dc.subject | Archaic Lyric | en |
dc.subject | Greek Lyric Poetry | en |
dc.subject | Greek Literature | en |
dc.title | Truth and Genre in Pindar | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1471-6844 | |
dc.contributor.department | University of Arizona | en |
dc.identifier.journal | The Classical Quarterly | en |
dc.description.collectioninformation | This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu. | en |
dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-09-11T17:13:59Z | |
html.description.abstract | By convention epinician poetry claims to be both obligatory and truthful, yet in the intersection of obligation and truth lies a seeming paradox: the poet presents his poetry as commissioned by a patron but also claims to be unbiased enough to convey the truth. In Slater's interpretation Pindar reconciles this paradox by casting his relationship to the patron as one of guest-friendship: when he declares himself a guest-friend of the victor, he agrees to the obligation ‘a) not to be envious of his xenos and b) to speak well of him. The argumentation is: Xenia excludes envy, I am a xenos, therefore I am not envious and consequently praise honestly’. Slater observes that envy may foster bias against the patron, but the problem of pro-patron bias remains: does the poet's friendship with and obligation to his patron produce praise at the expense of truth? |