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Combining historical and philological method with contemporary literary analysis, this study of Pindar's longest and most elaborate victory ode, the Fourth Pythian, traces the underlying mythical patterns, implicit poetics, and processes of mythopoesis that animate his poetry.
Originally published in 1986.
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Charles Segal (1936 2002) taught classics at the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Princeton University, and Harvard University, where he was Walter C. Klein Professor of the Classics. He also held held visiting professorships at Columbia University, Brandeis University, the University of Melbourne, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, and the Ecole Normale Superieure. Among his many books are Interpreting Greek Tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Text and Singers, Heroes, and Gods in the "Odyssey", both published by Cornell University Press.
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