Fashioning Immortality

Comparative Studies in Three Pindaric Odes
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-11-914769-9
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 210 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

Reihe: MythosEikonPoiesis

The book is an interdisciplinary study on and, three Pindaric epinicians, which share a special use of the word t??t??, ‘fashioner’. In these victory odes, the term t??t?? refers to creators of 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 *metaphors and “*compositions”, i.e. metaphors and ring-compositions built by means of repetitions of “*words” (Vedic , Avestan , and Greek t??t??), 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.T

Zielgruppe

Researchers, Postgraduates, Undergraduates

Autoren/Hrsg.

Massetti, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Massettiwas trained in Classics and Music in Milan. She completed a Ph.D. in Historical and Comparative Linguistics at University of Cologne and held several fellowships between 2017 and 2023: Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University (2017, Washington DC), Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship (2018–2020, University of Copenhagen), Carlsberg Visiting Fellowship (2020–2023, University of Oxford). She is Assistant Professor in Greek Literature (‘non-tenure track researcher’) at University of Naples “L’Orientale.” Her main research interests include Greek Literature, Historical Linguistics, Indo-Iranian Languages, Comparative Religion, Mythology and Poetics.