Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry by Simon Hornblower

Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry

Simon Hornblower

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Simon Hornblower argues for a relationship between Thucydides and Pindar not so far acknowledged in modern scholarship. He argues that ancient critics were right to detect stylistic similarities between these two great exponents of the "severe sty...

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