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  • 6 - Pindar, Bacchylides, Archaic Epic, and Intertextuality

  • from Part II - Lyric and Epic
  • Edited by Adrian Kelly, University of Oxford, Henry Spelman, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece
    Published online:
    14 November 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024, pp 138-166

  • Summary

    This chapter examines how Pindar and Bacchylides make use of early epic (esp. Homer) in their victory odes, from an explicitly ’intertextualist’ perspective. It discusses (inter alia) the meaning of ’Homer’ in the fifth century BC to the earliest audiences of Pindar and Bacchylides and adverts to the complexity and multiplicity of the audiences of their victory odes. It argues furthermore for the critical importance and benefits of intertextual analysis of Pindar and Bacchylides, especially the ways in which interaction with texts such as those of archaic epic should prompt a wider openness to intertextual investigation of victory odes.