Nesta tese, irei investigar as implicações que o uso consistente que Píndaro e Baquílides fazem do termo têm para a ocasião de performance dos epinícios. Irei argumentar, do ponto de vista da Linguística e da Poética Cognitivas, que, através de uma análise das passagens relevantes da literatura grega, de Homero ao drama do século V, o termo sempre implica algum tipo de celebração, seja móvel ou não, e que ele nunca é usado para denotar canção ou coro. Também irei argumentar que implica um frame dentro de um Modelo Cognitivo Idealizado para CELEBRAÇÃO DE VITÓRIA, dentro do qual referências às odes devem ser entendidas. Baseando-me nesta análise irei discutir as implicações dos resultados e reexaminar a pressuposição, atualmente tida como não problemática, segundo a qual as odes eram sempre executadas por um coro em sua première. Além disso, irei discutir também o problema da identificação da persona loquens nos poemas e irei propor que, na maioria dos casos, ela nunca parece se referir a um coro. Finalmente, discutirei alguns cenários de transmissão das odes, propondo que a escrita não precisa ser proposta para a transmissão do texto até uma data bem tardia e que uma tradição de reperformances orais dos poemas deve ter tido um papel essencial na preservação do texto. / In this thesis I shall investigate the implications of the consistent use Pindar and Bacchylides make of the term to the occasion of the performance of the epinikia. I shall argue, from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics and Poetics, that, through the 9 analysis of the relevant passages in Greek literature from Homer to the V century drama, the term always implies some sort celebration, either mobile or not, and that it is never used to denote either song or chorus. Most importantly I shall argue that implies a frame in an Idealized Cognitive Model for VICTORY CELEBRATION within which references to the victory ode must be understood. Based on this, I shall discuss the implications of these results and try to reexamine the assumption, held as unproblematic by the majority of critics, that the victory odes were always performed chorally on its premiere. Additionally I shall also discuss the problems of identifying the persona loquens in the poems and I shall propose that in most cases it never seems to refer to a chorus. Finally, I shall discuss some scenarios of transmission of the odes, proposing that writing needs not be assumed for the transmission of the text until a fairly late date and that a continuous tradition of oral reperformances must have played an essential role in the preservation of the text.

The aim of the thesis is to study the pseudonymous letters of Aeschines, all of which purport to give an account of his sojourn in exile. There is a strong consensus among scholars that all the letters are forgeries, and their date of composition tends to be located in the first few centuries CE on linguistic grounds. Embracing a variety of literary forms, these letters were probably composed by multiple hands and may for convenience be divided into three categories: Letters 2, 3, 7, 11, 12 imitate the ‘Demosthenic’ letters in a manner similar to the Hellenistic (and beyond) historical declamations and progymnasmata; Letters 1, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 come to us with features reminiscent of what German scholars would call Briefromane, or ‘epistolary novels’, and are normally deemed typical of the so-called Second Sophistic; and Letter 4 is a showpiece assuming the form of a Pindaric exegesis. The thesis consists of two parts. The first gives an extensive account of the letters, including their background, history of scholarship, and basic features, to seek to present the ‘forger’ and the text in their proper historical and cultural contexts. The second part, which constitutes the basis for the reflections developed in the first, provides a detailed commentary in thematic sequence. It begins with the ‘Demosthenic’ counterparts (Epp. 2, 3, 7, 11, 12), and stylistic comparisons are made throughout. The analysis of the fictional letters (Epp. 1, 5, 6, 8, 9) pays particular attention to their consistency of narrative and engagement with other literary genres. The commentary on Letter 4 foregrounds the Pindaric elements and completes the thesis. Letter 10 is discussed at sporadic points: it is a later attachment to the corpus and the erotic content is inconsistent with the ‘original’ forgeries. The overall focus of the thesis is on two overlapping aspects of Aeschines’ early reception in antiquity – as ‘the other orator’ beside Demosthenes and as inspiration for later rhetorical education. Existing studies, however, are more concerned with textual criticism and linguistic analysis and have left the letters almost unproductive in these respects: so Drerup (1904), Schwegler (1914), and, most recently, García Ruiz and Hernández Muñoz (2012). In his classic work Goldstein (1968) took the parallel passages in the pseudonymous letters as evidence for authenticating Demosthenes’ letters, and scholars are now able to take advantage of a more reliable reference when studying Ps.-Aeschines. Holzberg (1994), on the other hand, established a set of generic criteria for the Briefromane and has substantially changed the way we read Ps.-Aeschines: it is now possible to appreciate the literary value of the letters without scrutinising their authenticity. Yet both these studies tell us only half the story: while Goldstein left more remarks on the imitative counterparts of Demosthenes’ letters, Holzberg focused on the way the letters reflect the epistolary narrative. Following Rohde (1876/1960), moreover, it seems common sense to characterise the pseudo-historical tale as seen through the letters as a product of the ‘Second Sophistic’, though discoveries of new papyri, e.g. the Ninus romance c. first century BCE, undermined this assumption. My study is built on these investigations in an attempt to form the most extended analysis. The study of the ‘Demosthenic’ counterparts will contribute to a better understanding of Ps.-Aeschines’ intertextual engagement with Demosthenes and his successors, e.g. Ps.-Leosthenes (FGrH 105 F 6 = MP3 2496). It shows that Ps.-Aeschines owes a great deal to the culture of rhetoric and highlights his significance in the Nachleben of Attic oratory. As for the other letters, this thesis argues that they deserve some space in our accounts of the history of exilic, periegetic, and epinician literatures for contextualising a wide range of preexisting literary forms such as the Homeric Odyssey (Ep. 1) and Pindar’s victory odes (Ep. 4). As contingent by-products of the ‘Demosthenic’ counterparts, however, they seem to allow no confident judgement about generic consciousness, esp. the very notion of ‘novel’, and need to be approached as antedating the Imperial exponents. Contrary to the communis opinio, therefore, I attempt to move the date of composition forward to the late Hellenistic period, in which there was already ample encouragement for a sophist, as well as for his students, to write pseudonymous letters. The ‘traitors’ blacklist’ (Ep. 12.8–9) and the term for the Rhodian family of Diagoreans (Ep. 4.4) entertain this possibility inasmuch as both show marked affinities with the Hellenistic sources. Last but not least, the two coexisting, radically opposed interpretations of one’s civic orientation in exile will help us tackle the stability and change in the political cultures of the post-Classical era. My conclusion is that these letters hold a unique position as very early – and very illuminating – examples of how different literary, political trends were interwoven to make, and to remould, a Classic. It is hoped that this study may have done something to reappraise Ps.-Aeschines, who is, in all likelihood, a pre-sophisticated forerunner at a crossroads in the history of Greek literature.

O objetivo deste trabalho é apresentar uma tradução e um comentário textual à 13ª Olímpica de Píndaro, com base nas mais recentes edições e trabalhos críticos acerca do poeta e do gênero desse poema, o epinício. Também foi composto um ensaio interpretativo que tenta abarcar os temas mais importantes da ode e relacioná-los com o todo da obra de Píndaro. As imagens do poema desenvolvem a contraposição entre medida e excesso, representada tanto nas referências mitológicas (Têmis e as Horas contra a Soberba e Insolência; Belerofonte encilhando Pégaso) quanto nas reflexões da primeira pessoa (que não deve exceder-se no elogio para não errar o alvo, assim como um arqueiro disparando suas flechas; nem deve tentar relatar todas as vitórias da família, pois são tão numerosas quanto os grãos de areia etc.). Em anexo, há a tradução dos escólios relativos a essa ode para permitir a consulta direta a essa fonte, que não se acha traduzida. / The objective of this study is to present a translation and a textual commentary of Pindar\'s Olympian 13, based on the most recent editions and critical works about the poet and the genre of this poem, the epinician. An interpretative essay was composed in order to cover the most important themes of this ode and articulate them with Pindar\'s other works. The poetical imagens of the poem develop the central theme, the opposition between measure and excess, represented by the mithological references (Themis and the Hours against the Excess and the Satiety; Bellerophon taming Pegasus etc.) and by the first-person\'s reflections on the laudatory art (the first-person should not exceed in praise in order to not miss the target, as an archer with his arrows; nor should try to enumerate all the victories of this family, for they are greater than the grains of sand from the sea). There is a translation of the scholia to this ode attached, allowing direct consultation, once there is no other version of this text.

O objetivo deste trabalho é propor um estudo filológico da poesia ditirâmbica de Píndaro (518/522 453/438 a.C.) atualmente compilada. Uma nota sobre Píndaro e a recepção de sua poesia introduz o leitor ao lugar do poeta na tradição literária e aos gêneros poéticos em que sua produção foi conhecida na Antiguidade, mas cuja transmissão foi irregular, como é o caso de seus ditirambos. Segue-se uma introdução sobre a questão do gênero poético do ditirambo na Antiguidade clássica, suas definições e classificações e seu corpus atualmente acessível, com considerações metodológicas sobre o que se propõe a seguir. Antecipando a apresentação dos fragmentos poéticos, algumas características distintivas dos ditirambos de Píndaro são destacadas a partir de fragmentos conhecidos e identificados (ou discutidos) como ditirambos do poeta. Por fim, o texto de cada fragmento conhecido da poesia ditirâmbica de Píndaro (baseado na edição de Maehler, 1989, com a contribuição mais recente de outros editores) é apresentado, com escólios, um aparato crítico, uma tradução e comentários que examinam teorias antigas e modernas acerca de suas referências, seus elementos formais, temáticos e estilísticos e o que possivelmente caracterizou esses poemas como ditirambos. / The aim of this work is to propose a philological study of the dithyrambic poetry of Pindar (518/522 - 453/438 a.C.) currently compiled. A note on Pindar and the reception of his poetry introduces the reader to the place of the poet in the literary tradition and to the poetic genres in which his production was known in Antiquity, but whose transmission was irregular, as is the case of his dithyrambs. Follows an introduction to the question of the poetic genre of the dithyramb in classical Antiquity, its definitions and classifications, and its currently accessible corpus, with methodological considerations about what is proposed to follow. Anticipating the presentation of the poetic fragments, some distinctive features of Pindars dithyrambs are highlighted from known fragments which are identified (or discussed) as his dithyrambs. Lastly, the text of each known fragment of Pindars dithyrambic poetry (based on the Maehler, 1989 edition, with the most recent contribution of other editors) is presented with scholia, a critical apparatus, a translation and commentary examining ancient and modern theories about its references, its formal, thematic, and stylistic elements, and what possibly characterized these poems as dithyrambs.

Esta dissertação gira em torno da representação do poeta no hino tardio (späte Hymne) de Hölderlin. A representação do poeta é abordada a partir da consideração de representações de poetas que lhe são anteriores, tanto no contexto da poesia lírica alemã do séc. XVIII, mais precisamente no âmbito dos hinos (Hymnen) desse período, como no da poesia da Antiguidade, com destaque para a grega, a qual era tratada com peculiar atenção por autores em língua alemã da época supracitada. Ideias elaboradas por autores de língua alemã da segunda metade do séc. XVIII acerca do hino e da relação da poesia antiga (mais uma vez com destaque para a grega e para Píndaro) com a literatura alemã são aqui retomadas (na seção quatro deste trabalho). O estudo da representação do poeta se baseou, sobretudo, em análises mais detidas de poemas. Foram analisados, além de dois poemas de Hölderlin Die Wanderung e Andenken (na seção cinco) , dois poemas de autores alemães que lhe precederam Das Landleben, de Klopstock, e Wandrers Sturmlied, de Goethe (seção quatro) e dois poemas do mundo antigo, o Hino Homérico 6: a Afrodite e a Pítica 1, de Píndaro (seção três). Procura-se identificar a representação do poeta nos poemas por meio dos gestos de fala, cuja conceituação é desenvolvida em uma das primeiras partes deste trabalho (seção dois). A forma simples que subjaz ao hino é a reza, cujos gestos, ainda que com algumas variações discutidas nos casos particulares, são encontrados, por fim, nos poemas acima indicados. O objetivo é compreender, através desta pesquisa, de modo mais geral, (a) o processo de constituição da imagem do poeta a partir de concepções do poeta legadas pela tradição e (b) as interseções e correlações entre poesia arcaica e moderna; entre o papel de poetas antigos e poetas de um mundo moderno. Certos poetas alemães do séc. XVIII retomam e perfazem, em outra circunstância e condições sociais e históricas diversas, gestos realizados por poetas da Antiguidade, os quais, por sua vez, apresentam funções e atividades concernentes à poesia da sociedade de que faziam parte. Poetas na Alemanha do séc. XVIII/XIX que realizam gestos daquela poesia antiga aparecem, por um lado, como visionários, iniciados, articuladores da voz de pedido e louvor da comunidade, núncios e profetas, e também, por outro, como alguém de sensibilidade, intérprete da poesia e da história, pessoa de grande percepção e genialidade. Contudo, não se exclui, na idade moderna, a predicação de loucura ao poeta que demonstra um entusiasmo não tão consequente ou que se perde na lida com Píndaro. Nesse percurso de retomada da poesia passada, mostrou-se significativo o estabelecimento de charis pelo poeta: um característico encontrado na poesia antiga que vai assumindo novas formas e objetos de articulação ao longo desses poemas mais modernos. / The present dissertation focuses on the poets representation in Hölderlins late hymn (späte Hymne). The approach to this poets representation considers the representation of poets that preceded Hölderlin, both in context of German lyric poetry from the 18th century the hymns of this time, to speak more precisely and in the context of ancient poetry, above all the Greeks, which were treated in a particular manner by German authors from the aforementioned period. The discussion German-speaking authors developed of hymns and of the aftereffects of ancient poetry (again with emphasis on Greek and Pindar) in this period of German literature is summarized (in section four of the present work). The study of the poets representation was based on more exhaustive analyses of poems: the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (no. 6) and Pindars first Pythian (in section three); Klopstocks Das Landleben and Goethes Wandrers Sturmlied (section four); Hölderlins Die Wanderung and Andenken (section five). The poets representation in the poems is identified through the gestures of speech (Sprachgebärden) typical of the hymn. The concept of gestures of speech is developed in the second section of this work. The simple form (einfache Form) underlying the hymn is the prayer (reza), whose gestures of speech were found in all the poems named above, although the sequence of the gestures can differ from on text to another. These differences and similarities are a topic of discussion during poems analysing and in the conclusion. In a more general manner, the present dissertation aims to comprehend (a) the formation of the poets image from conceptions of the poet presented by the tradition and (b) the parallels and correlations between archaic and modern poetry; between the ancient and modern role of the poet. Despite other occasions, different circumstances and social conditions, German poets perform gestures of speech that poets in antiquity presented within their functions and activities concerning the poetry in their society. German poets in the 18th century who used gestures of ancient poets are seen as initiated, heralds, prophets, the voices of praise and request of a community, also as visionaries, ones of especial sensitivity, exegetes of poetry and history, persons of great perception and genius. Nevertheless they can be seen as madman and frenzied. The establishment of charis appears significant: a feature of the ancient poetry that takes on new forms and objects of articulation throughout those modern poems.

Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2005 / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the cosmological context of Pindar' s victory odes, and its importance for their encomiastic purpose. The introductory chapter deals with selected aspects of Pindaric scholarship in order to establish the usefulness of such an investigation. The first part of the study focuses on gnomai as a reflection of cosmological ideas. In Chapter 2 modem scholarship on the proverb and maxim, various ancient texts on gnomai and a number of references in Pindar are analysed in support of the contention that gnomai provide a legitimate basis for an overview of the cosmology revealed in Pindars poetry. The overview presented in Chapter 3 discusses three broad topics. The first concerns the elemental forces, fate, god and nature, the second deals with the human condition and the third considers man in society from the perspectives of the household and family relationships on the one hand and relationships outside the OtKOs on the other. The overview suggests that Pindar's work is founded on a mostly conventional outlook on man and his relationships with both extra-human powers and his fellow man. To complement the overview three epinikia, Olympian 12, Isthmian 4 and Olympian 13 are analysed in Chapter 4. They demonstrate how the complexity of an actual situation compels the poet to emphasise different aspects of the cosmology or even to suggest variations to accepted views. The analyses imply that presenting the cosmological context of a particular celebration in an appropriate way is part of the poet's task. This aspect is further investigated in Chapter 5, which looks at the role of the poet as mediator of cosmology. In some cases the poet demonstrates certain preferred attitudes which in tum presuppose particular cosmological convictions. In others this role involves changing the perspective on the circumstances or attributes of a victor or his family through a modification of cosmological principles. Different approaches to the same theme in different poems show the author Pindar shaping the narrator-poet to represent varying viewpoints in order to praise a specific victor in the manner most suitable to his wishes and circumstances. The fact that the poet's task includes situating the victory in its cosmological context means that the glorification of a victor includes presenting him as praiseworthy in terms of broader life issues, such as the role of the divine in human achievement, a man's attitude to success and his status in society. Pindar's use of cosmological themes in general speaks of pragmatism rather than conformity to and the consistent defense of a rigid framework of values. However, the prominence of cosmology in the odes and the sometimes very conspicuous role of the poet in communicating it also reveal Pindar's abiding interest in man and his position in the world / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek die kosmologiese konteks van Pindaros se oorwinningsodes, en die belangrikheid daarvan vir die gedigte as prysliedere. Die inleidende hoofstuk behandel geselekteerde aspekte van Pindaros-navorsing om die nut van so 'n ondersoek te bepaal. Die eerste deel van die studie fokus op gnomai as 'n bron van kosmologiese idees. In hoofstuk 2 word moderne navorsing oor spreekwoorde en wysheidspreuke, verskeie antieke tekste oor gnomai en 'n aantal verwysings in Pindaros se werk ontleed ter ondersteuning van die stand punt dat gnornai 'n redelike grondslag bied vir 'n oorsig van die kosmologie wat in Pindaros se digkuns na vore kom. Die oorsig aangebied in hoofstuk 3 bespreek drie bree onderwerpe, eerstens die fundamentele magte, die noodlot, god en die natuur, tweedens die menslike toestand en derdens die mens in die samelewing uit die hoek van die huishouding en familieverhoudings enersyds en verhoudings buite die OtKOs ; andersyds. Die oorsig dui aan dat Pindaros se werk gebaseer is op 'n hoofsaaklik konvensionele uitkyk op die mens en sy verhoudings met beide buite-menslike magte en sy medemens. Ter aanvulling van die oorsig word drie oorwinningsodes, Olimpiese Ode 12, lsmiese Ode 4 en Olimpiese Ode 13 in hoofstuk 4 ontleed. Die ontledings toon aan hoe die kompleksiteit van 'n gegewe situasie die digter verplig om verskillende aspekte van die kosmologie te beklemtoon of selfs afwykings van aanvaarde menings voor te stel. Die ontledings impliseer dat dit deel van die digter se taak is om die kosmologiese konteks van 'n spesifieke viering op die gepaste wyse aan te bied. Hierdie aspek word verder ondersoek in hoofstuk 5, waarin die rol van die digter as bemiddelaar van kosmologie bekyk word. In sommige gevalle demonstreer die digter sekere voorkeurhoudings wat op hulle beurt spesifieke kosmologiese oortuigings veronderstel. In ander gevalle behels hierdie rol die verandering van die perspektief op die omstandighede of eienskappe van 'n oorwinnaar of sy familie deur die modifisering van kosmologiese beginsels. Verskillende benaderings tot dieselfde tema in verskillende gedigte wys hoe die outeur Pindaros die vertellerdigter vorm om wisselende standpunte te verteenwoordig sodat 'n spesifieke wenner op die mees geskikte manier in ooreenstemming met sy wense en omstandighede geprys kan word. Die feit dat die digter se taak die plasing van die oorwinning in sy kosmologiese konteks insluit, beteken dat die verheerliking van 'n wenner insluit dat hy voorgestel word as lofwaardig kragtens breer lewenskwessies, soos byvoorbeeld die rol van die goddelike in menslike prestasie, 'n mens se houding tot sukses en sy status in die gemeenskap. Oor die algemeen spreek Pindaros se gebruik van kosmologiese temas van pragmatisme eerder as onderwerping aan en die volgehoue verdediging van 'n rigiede stel waardes. Die belangrikheid van kosmologie in die odes en die soms besonder opvallende rol van die digter in die kommunikasie daarvan openbaar egter ook Pindaros se blywende belangstelling in die mens en sy plek in die wereld.

A finalidade deste trabalho é realizar um comentário à 7ª Ode Olímpica de Píndaro. Adicionalmente, procura demonstrar a maneira como a obra desse autor foi citada ou aludida no mundo de língua grega, até a publicação, em 1515, da edição de Zacarias Calierges, e como se formou a crítica pindárica nos séculos XIX e XX. / This work aims to present a comment to Pindar\'s 7th Olympian Ode. Additionally, it intents not only to demonstrate the way Pindar\'s work was mentioned or referred to in Greek language until the publication of Zacarias Calierges\' edition, in 1515, but also show how the pindaric criticism of XIX and XX centuries was shaped.

A finalidade deste trabalho é realizar um comentário à 7ª Ode Olímpica de Píndaro. Adicionalmente, procura demonstrar a maneira como a obra desse autor foi citada ou aludida no mundo de língua grega, até a publicação, em 1515, da edição de Zacarias Calierges, e como se formou a crítica pindárica nos séculos XIX e XX. / This work aims to present a comment to Pindar\'s 7th Olympian Ode. Additionally, it intents not only to demonstrate the way Pindar\'s work was mentioned or referred to in Greek language until the publication of Zacarias Calierges\' edition, in 1515, but also show how the pindaric criticism of XIX and XX centuries was shaped.

This thesis is a study of embedded song in ancient Greek narrative poetry. The introduction defines the terminology (embedded song is defined as the depiction of the performance of a poem within a larger poem, such as the songs of Demodocus in Homer’s Odyssey) and sets the study in the context of recent narratological work done by scholars of Classical literature. This section of the thesis also contains a brief discussion of embedded song in the Homeric epics, which will form the background of all later examples of the motif. Chapter 1 deals with embedded song in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod’s Theogony. It is argued that the occurrence of embedded song across these poems indicates that the motif is a traditional feature of early Greek hexameter poetry, while the possibility of “inter-textual” allusion between these poems is considered, but finally dismissed. Chapter 2 focuses on Pindar, Bacchylides and Corinna, and explores how lyric poets use this motif in the various sub-genres of Greek lyric. In epinician poetry, it is argued that embedded song is used as a strategy of praise and also to boost the authority of the poet-narrator by association with the embedded performers, who can be seen to have in each case a particular source of authority distinct from that of the poet narrator. Chapter 3 considers the Hellenistic poets Apollonius Rhodius and Theocritus, and how their interest in depicting oral poetry meshes with their identity as literate and literary poets. Appendix I gives a list of all the examples of embedded song I have found in Greek poetry. Appendix II gives an account of Pindar’s Hymn to Zeus, a highly fragmentary poem which almost certainly contained an embedded song, analysing this as an example of the difficulties thrown up by lyric fragments for a study of embedded narratives.

This thesis examines the reception of Pindar in Hellenistic poetry. More specifically it examines texts of three major Hellenistic poets: Theocritus of Syracuse, Callimachus of Cyrene and Posidippus of Pella. The texts discussed have been selected on the basis of two principles: (i) genre and (ii) subject matter. They include texts that inscribe themselves in the tradition of encomiastic, and more specifically, Pindaric poetry either through the generic discourse which they partake in or through the employment of myths that Pindar had used in his own odes. Throughout the thesis it is argued that the connections with Pindaric passages are carried out on the basis of ‘allusions’ which are picked up by the readers. This term is employed to describe one of the ways in which intertextuality functions. Following the model of Conte and Barchiesi, the discussion insists on the distinction between allusions to specific Pindaric passages and allusions to epinician generic motifs that can best be illustrated through Pindaric passages. The aim of the discussion for each case of textual correspondence suggested is to describe the means whereby this connection is suggested to the reader and to propose a ‘meaning’ for it. In this sense, equal emphasis is given to the detailed examination of all texts that partake in the intertextual connection suggested, i.e. to Pindaric and Hellenistic alike.