Access Today Pindar's Mythmaking: The Fourth Pythian Ode Written And Illustrated By Charles Segal Made Available In Hardcover

Combining historical and philological method with contemporary literary analysis, this study of Pindar's longest and most elaborate victory ode, the Fourth Pythian, traces the underlying mythical patterns, implicit poetics, and processes of mythopoesis that animate his poetry.

Charles Segal was Walter C, Klein Professor of the Classics at Harvard University, His many books include Sophocles Tragic World, Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles, and Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge, Charles Segal was Walter C, Klein Professor of the Classics at Harvard University, His many books include Sophocles' Tragic World, Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles, and Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of Knowledge, sitelink.