Pindar and the sublime : Greek myth, reception, and lyric experience / Robert L. Fowler.

Cover
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Sublime Receptions
Ancient perceptions of Pindar
Preliminary remarks on early modern receptions
Abraham Cowley and English receptions
Boileau, Perrault and Pindar
Herder and the exaltation of genius
Edmund Burke
Immanuel Kant
Reaction to Kant: Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Hölderlin
Lyric parataxis
Ancient and modern receptions in conversation
2 Shared Experience
The first Pythian
Primary and secondary (and tertiary) audiences

The lyric 'now' and lyric experience: Being there
Occasions: The Pindaric kōmos
Personae, performativity and authors
Pindar acting 'Pindar'
'So I too': Pindar's 'I' and us
The shadow's dream
On the razor's edge: The poet, the kairos, art and politics
3 Exceeding Limits
Greek myth, Greek religion
Transcendence and immanence
Personifications
Probing the boundary of eternity
Divine epiphanies
In and out of time: Pindaric temporality
'As when': Pindaric metaphor and the limits of language
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Passages