Pindar's Songs for Young Athletes of Aigina - Burnett, The late Anne Pippin (Formerly Professor Emerita, Classics, University of Chicago)

This book consists of individual studies of the poet Pindar's eleven odes for the victors of the athletic contests on the island of Aigina. Anne Pippin Burnett addresses questions of mythic self-presentation, as well as Pindar's techniques for unifying his audience and leading it into a shared experience of inspired success.