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dc.contributor.authorPark, Arum
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-27T01:03:39Z
dc.date.available2017-01-27T01:03:39Z
dc.date.issued2013-05
dc.identifier.citationArum Park (2013). TRUTH AND GENRE IN PINDAR. The Classical Quarterly, 63, pp 17-36 doi: 10.1017/S000983881200078Xen
dc.identifier.issn0009-8388
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/622193
dc.description.abstractBy 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.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.relation.urlhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S000983881200078Xen
dc.rights© The Classical Association 2013.en
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectPindaren
dc.subjectTruthen
dc.subjectGenreen
dc.subjectGreek Poetryen
dc.subjectArchaic Poetryen
dc.subjectArchaic Lyricen
dc.subjectGreek Lyric Poetryen
dc.subjectGreek Literatureen
dc.titleTruth and Genre in Pindaren
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.eissn1471-6844
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Arizonaen
dc.identifier.journalThe Classical Quarterlyen
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dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen
refterms.dateFOA2018-09-11T17:13:59Z
html.description.abstractBy 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?


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