Reading the victory ode / edited by Péter Agócs, Chris Carey and Richard Rawles.

Part I. The Lost History of Epinician -- 1. Early Epinician: Ibycus and Simonides / Richard Rawles -- 2. The lost Isthmian Odes of Pindar / Giovan Battista D'Alessio -- 3. Epinician sounds: Pindar and musical innovation / Lucia Prauscello -- 4. Epinicians and 'patrons' / Ewen Bowie -- 5. What happened later to the families of Pindaric patrons - and to Epinician poetry? / Simon Hornblower -- Part II. Contexts of Performance and Re-Performance -- 6. Performance, re-performance, and Pindar's audiences / A. D. Morrison -- 7. Performance and re-performance: the Siphnian treasury evoked (Pindar's Pythian 6, Olympian 2 and Isthmian 2) / Lucia Athanassaki -- 8. Representations of cult in Epinician poetry / Franco Ferrari -- 9. Epinician and the Symposion: a comparison with the Enkomia / Felix Budelmann -- 10. Performance and genre: reading Pindar's komoi / Peter Agócs -- 11. Pindar's 'difficulty' and the performance of Epinician poetry: some suggestions from ethnography / Rosalind Thomas -- Part III. Critical Approaches to the Victory Ode: Rhetoric, Imagery, and Narrative -- 12. Poet and public: communicative strategies in Pindar and Bacchylides / Glenn W. Most -- 13. Image and world in Epinician poetry / G. O. Hutchinson -- 14. Metaphorical travel and ritual performance in Epinician poetry / Claude Calame -- 15. Bacchylidean myths / David Fearn -- 16. Reading Pindar / Michael Silk.