Pindar's poetry, patrons, and festivals :  from archaic Greece to the Roman Empire / 
edited by Simon Hornblower and Catherine Morgan. 
 - Oxford ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  2007. 
 - xiv, 473 p. :  ill., maps, plans ;  26 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-445) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>Introduction / Simon Hornblower and Catherine Morgan -- The origins of the festivals, especially Delphi and the Pythia / John Davies -- Origins of the Olympics / Stephen Instone -- Pindar, athletes, and the early Greek statue habit / R.R.R. Smith -- Fame, memorial, and choral poetry : the origins of epinikian poetry : an historical study / Rosalind Thomas -- Epinikian eidography / N.J. Lowe -- Pindar's poetry as poetry : a literary commentary / Michael Silk -- Pindar, place, and performance / Christopher Carey -- Debating patronage : the cases of Argos and Corinth / Catherine Morgan -- Elite mobility in the West / Carla M. Antonaccio -- 'Dolphins in the sea' (Isthmian 9.7) : Pindar and the Aeginetans / Simon Hornblower -- Thessalian aristocracy and society in the age of the Epinikian / Maria Stamatopoulou -- The entire house is full of crowns : Hellenistic agones and the commemoration of victory / Riet van Bremen -- 'Kapetoleia Olympia' : Roman emperors and Greek agones / Tony Spawforth -- Conclusion : the prestige of the games / Mary Douglas. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199296729 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Pindar--Criticism and interpretation<br/>Bacchylides--Criticism and interpretation
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Laudatory poetry, Greek--History and criticism
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>884.01