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V. Ritual and Initiatory Itineraries toward the Afterlife: Time, Space, and Pragmatics in the Gold Lamellae

V. Ritual and Initiatory Itineraries toward the Afterlife: Time, Space, and Pragmatics in the Gold Lamellae Western postmodernism, moving now toward hyper- or meta-modernism, has been characterized both by the desire for immediate profit and by the development of means of communication and multi-media. These two phenomena are brought together by the omnipresence of advertising in all the new technical means of communication, an advertising designed to… Read more

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By Way of Conclusion: Returns to the Present

By Way of Conclusion: Returns to the Present Truth loves to prevail,and all-conquering timealways fosters the deed that is well done Bacchylides 13.204-207 (translation by Campbell 1992:201) Inserted into a poem by Bacchylides which celebrates the victory of an athlete of Aegina in the Nemean games, this aphorism on truth (alḗtheia) which always triumphs with time (khrónos) might well serve as the very foundation for the representation of time we might attribute to any good classical Greek. Variations on… Read more

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Bibliography

Bibliography Adam, J.-M. 1991. Le récit ed. 3. Paris. Adam, J.-M., Lugrin, G., and Revaz, F. 1998. “Pour en finir avec le couple récit/discours.” Pratiques 100:81-97. Aellen, Ch. 1994. A la recherche de l’ordre cosmique. Forme et fonction des personnifications dans la céramique italiote. Zurich. Affergan, F. 1987. Exotisme et altérité. Essai sur les… Read more

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5. Novelistic Features of Epinician Style

5. Novelistic Features of Epinician Style To approach epinikion as a novelistic form of discourse is an effective basis for stylistic description of the genre and for understanding the art form from the perspective of intersubjective objectivity. To be clear at the outset, I identify Pindar’s art as a form of novelistic discourse and not as a novel, understood as a prose form of verbal art. Read more

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Conclusion

Conclusion The line outside the bus starts with Iris. Behind her stands the widow of the pastor in Michigan who died after being hit by a car, could Lance write a letter to be read at the funeral? Behind her stand the parents of a twelve-year-old Pennsylvania boy wondering if Armstrong might have a minute to make a phone call. Behind them stand still others,… Read more

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Appendix

Appendix This Appendix documents the analysis described in Chapters 3 and 4 above and applied to all of Pindar’s epinikia. The primary purpose of this Appendix is to provide supporting evidence for the arguments presented in Chapters 3 and 4, principally that five ways of epinician speaking—gnôma, lyric, angelia, mythological narrative, and eukhesthai—constitute the epinician way of speaking. This Appendix also documents the fact that many of… Read more

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Bibliography

Bibliography Aloni, A. 1998. Cantare glorie di eroi: Comunicazione e performance poetica nella Grecia arcaica. Turin. Anzai, M. 1994. “First-Person Forms in Pindar: A Re-Examination.” Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 39:141–150. Athanassaki, L. 2004. “Deixis, Performance, and Poetics in Pindar’s First Olympian Ode.” In Felson 2004a:317–341. Austin, J. L. 1975. How to… Read more

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Preface

Preface [In this on-line version, the page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the printed version ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references made elsewhere to the printed version of this book.] Homeric representations of animal sacrifice have often been included in… Read more

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1. Defining Homeric Sacrifice

1. Defining Homeric Sacrifice 1.1 Sacrifice and the Homeric Text Rituals are actions performed in a repetitive pattern recognizable to members of a community that act as symbolic markers of the values underpinning a given society. Such actions can be both symbolic and functional, as is the case with the ritual of animal sacrifice: symbolic actions, such as scattering barley grains or wearing special clothing, elaborate… Read more

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2. The Ritual Process

2. The Ritual Process The thematic resonance of sacrifice in the Iliad depends on the combination of individual ritual actions, each appropriate to context, which produce a pattern of significance throughout the poem. [1] To better illuminate this pattern, we can catalog the range of possible ritual details in Homeric sacrifices and thus clarify the restricted focus on certain actions according to… Read more