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Pindar’s Olympian 1, 1 – 7 and its Relation to Bacchylides 3, 85 – 87

    Chris Eckerman

Wiener Studien 130/2017, pp. 7-32, 2017/06/26

Zeitschrift für Klassische Philologie, Patristik und lateinische Tradition

doi: 10.1553/wst130s7

doi: 10.1553/wst130s7

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doi:10.1553/wst130s7



doi:10.1553/wst130s7

Abstract

Scholars generally assume that Olympian 1, 1 – 7 and Bacchylides 3, 85 – 87 contain priamels. I argue that these passages do not contain priamels. I suggest that we have thought that these passages contain priamels because we have not recognized Pindar’s and Bacchylides’ metaphorical language. At Bacchylides 3, 85 – 87, Bacchylides caps Olympian 1, 1 – 7, while making the argument with Hieron, the patron of both Olympian 1 and Bacchylides 3, that Bacchylides is a better poet than Pindar.