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Gregory Nagy, Pindar's Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past
Acknowledgments
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Introduction. A Word on Assumptions, Methods, and Aims
1. Oral Poetry and Ancient Greek Poetry: Broadening and Narrowing the Terms
2. The Poetics of Panhellenism and the Enigma of Authorship in Early Greece
3. The Panhellenization of Song
4. Pindar’s Olympian 1 and the Aetiology of the Olympic Games
5. The Ordeal of the Athlete and the Burden of the Poet
6. Epic, Praise, and the Possession of Poetry
7. Pindar and Homer, Athlete and Hero
8. The Authoritative Speech of Prose, Poetry, and Song: Pindar and Herodotus I
9. The Authority of Historiā and the Sign of the Hero
10. The Charms of Tyranny: Pindar and Herodotus II
11. The Ainos as Song or Speech: Pindar and Herodotus III
12. Authority and Authorship in the Lyric Tradition
13. The Genesis of Athenian State Theater and the Survival of Pindar’s Poetry
14. Pindar’s Homer
Appendix. A Comparative Survey of Pindar’s Meters
Bibliography
Abbreviations
The following abbreviations identify works frequently cited in the notes:
| CEG | See Hansen 1983 |
| DELG | See Chantraine 1968+ |
| DK | See Diels and Kranz 1951-1952 |
| EG | See Page 1975 |
| FGH | See Jacoby 1923+ |
| GP, GP II | See Gentili and Prato |
| IG | = Inscriptiones Graecae … Berlin, 1873+ |
| KA | See Kassel and Austin 1983+ |
| LSJ | See Liddell, Scott, and Stuart Jones 1940 |
| LSS | See Sokolowski 1962 |
| MW | See Merkelbach and West 1967 |
| N | See Nagy |
| PMG | See Page 1962 |
| PSI | = Papyri Greci e Latini, Pubblicazioni della Società italiana per la ricerca dei papiri greci e latini in Egitto, 1912+ |
| PW | See Parke and Wormell 1956 |
| SIG | See Dittenberger 1915-1924 |
| SLG | See Page 1974 |
| SM | See Snell and Maehler |
| V | See Voigt 1971 |
| W | See West 1971/1972 |