Fashioning Immortality: Comparative Studies in Three Pindaric Odes

di Laura Massetti (Autore)

De Gruyter, 2025

The book is an interdisciplinary study on Pythian Three, Nemean Three and Nemean Five, three Pindaric epinicians, which share a special use of the word τέκτων, ‘fashioner’. In these victory odes, the term τέκτων refers to creators of immaterial objects and occurs close to the first and/or the final words of the poems, in connection with key themes, namely: health, poetry, choral performance, movement as opposed to stasis. The study shows that structures in which Pindaric metaphors are found have parallels in Indo-European languages of ancient attestation: Old Indic and Avestan. In doing so, the book casts new light on Pindar’s language and the stylistic features of his odes, which are in a relation of historical continuity with phraseological and structural characteristics of religious hymns of Ancient India and Iran. The study reveals that *tetƙ-metaphors and “*tetƙ-compositions”, i.e. metaphors and ring-compositions built by means of repetitions of “*tetƙ-words” (Vedic takṣ, Avestan taš, and Greek τέκτων), have a deep meta-thematic relevance in three linguistically related traditions and are an inherited phraseological stylistic feature common to Ancient Greek and Indo-Iranian poetic creations.

• Autore: Laura Massetti
• Editore: De Gruyter
• Collana: MythosEikonPoiesis
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 312 p.
• Dimensioni: 230 x 155 mm
• Peso: 558 gr.
• EAN: 9783119147699

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