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Among the Ancients II: Pindar and Bacchylides

In the fifth episode of Among the Ancients II we turn to Greek lyric, focusing on Pindar’s victory odes, considered a benchmark for the sublime since antiquity, and the vivid, narrative-driven dithyrambs of Bacchylides. Through close reading, Emily and Tom tease out allusions, lexical flourishes and formal experimentation, and explain the highly contextual nature of these tightly choreographed, public-facing poems. They illustrate how precarious work could be for a praise poet in a world driven by competition – striking the right note to please your patron, guarantee the next gig, and stay on good terms with the gods. This is an extract from the episode. To listen in full and to our other Close Readings series, sign up: Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/applecryt In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingsyt Read more in the LRB Leofranc Holford-Strevens: Dithyrambs for Athens https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v27/n... Barbara Graziosi: Flower or Fungus? https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n... ABOUT CLOSE READINGS Close Readings is a multi-series podcast subscription from the London Review of Books exploring different periods of literature through a selection of key works. Enjoy an introductory grounding like no other from Europe's leading literary journal: fluent, rigorous, irreverent and never boring. Find more episodes here:    • Close Readings   Running in 2024: ON SATIRE with Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell HUMAN CONDITIONS with Adam Shatz, Judith Butler, Pankaj Mishra and Brent Hayes Edwards AMONG THE ANCIENTS II with Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones Plus two bonus series: MEDIEVAL LOLS with Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley POLITICAL POEMS with Seamus Perry and Mark Ford Also included in the Close Readings subscription, the full series of: AMONG THE ANCIENTS I with Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones MEDIEVAL BEGINNINGS with Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley THE LONG AND SHORT with Mark Ford and Seamus Perry MODERN-ISH POETS: SERIES 1 with Mark Ford and Seamus Perry ABOUT THE LRB The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance. As well as essays and book reviews each issue also contains poems, an exhibition review, ‘short cuts’, letters and a diary, and is available in print, online, and offline via our app. Subscribers enjoy unlimited access to almost 15,000 articles in our digital archive. Our website features a regular blog and a channel of audio and video content, including podcasts, author interviews and highlights from the events programme at the London Review Bookshop.