What is it about?
Pindar wrote many songs to be performed in public festivals, but sometimes it is difficult to reconstruct how and exactly where his songs were performed. This paper faces this question about a song written for Athens and dedicated to Dionysus: Pindar's words do not simply reflect the song's physical context, but reshape it in order to depict the city space in an imaginative way as a city crowded with gods.
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Why is it important?
The interpretation of Pindar's poetry in context is a delicate task and this song has been highly debated in this regard. This article provides a fresh approach to the problem in light of the general strategies chosen by Pindar and other lyric poets in coping with contexts and patrons.
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This paper springs out from my first conference paper. I presented its first version to an audience made of great scholars who were much more experienced than me. It has been a great pleasure for me to share it with them, as well as an occasion to increase my expertise. I am so glad to share it now with a wider public.
Stefano Fanucchi
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This page is a summary of: Cultic Space and Dithyrambic Performance in Pindar’s Fragment 75, March 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004750388_005.
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