The mythical allusions in Pindar’s Olympic Ode II: A literary-critical analysis
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lyric poetry, epinician, myth, Pindar, Olympian ode IIAbstract
The aim of this article is to do a critical-literary analysis of the epinician, the second Olympian, which is considered one of Pindar´s masterpieces. As the mythical element is important in this subgenre of archaic lyric poetry, of which the main objective is to praise the winning athlete of a competition, the funcion of the myth will be investigated, as well as its relation to the athlete to whom the ode is destined, that is Theron of Acragas. Other elements will also be observed, like the gnomic sentences, the poet´s first-persons references and the praise intended towards the athlete.
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