Throughout, he progressively broadens the definition of lyric to the point where it becomes the basis for defining epic, rather than the other way around.

Nagy challenges the widely held view that the development of lyric poetry in Greece represents the rise of individual innovation over collective tradition. Argu

A suggestive study of an elemental aspect of fiction

Offers a new approach to Pindar's victory odes by focusing on their poetic aim of immortalization.

Text and translation of all Pindar's paeans, sacred hymns to Apollo, with a supplement containing fragments from poems of uncertain genre. The lengthy introduct