{"product_id":"9783119147699","title":"Fashioning Immortality : Comparative Studies in Three Pindaric Odes (MythosEikonPoiesis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book is an interdisciplinary study on \u003cem\u003eP\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eythian Three, Nemean Three \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Nemean Five\u003c\/em\u003e, three Pindaric epinicians, which share a special use of the word ni, 'fashioner'. In these victory odes, the term ni refers to creators of \u003cem\u003eimmaterial \u003c\/em\u003eobjects and occurs close to the first and\/or the final words of the poems, in connection with key themes, namely: health, poetry, choral performance, movement as opposed to stasis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe study shows that structures in which Pindaric metaphors are found have parallels in Indo-European languages of ancient attestation: Old Indic and Avestan. In doing so, the book casts new light on Pindar's language and the stylistic features of his odes, which are in a relation of historical continuity with phraseological and structural characteristics of religious hymns of Ancient India and Iran. The study reveals that *\u003cem\u003etet -\u003c\/em\u003emetaphors and \"*\u003cem\u003etet -\u003c\/em\u003ecompositions\", i.e. metaphors and ring-compositions built by means of repetitions of \"*\u003cem\u003etet -\u003c\/em\u003ewords\" (Vedic \u003cem\u003etaks\u003c\/em\u003e, Avestan \u003cem\u003etas\u003c\/em\u003e, and Greek ni), have a deep meta-thematic relevance in three linguistically related traditions and are an inherited phraseological stylistic feature common to Ancient Greek and Indo-Iranian poetic creations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLaura Massetti\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ewas trained in Classics and Music in Milan. She completed a Ph.D. in Historical and Comparative Linguistics at University of Cologne and held several fellowships between 2017 and 2023: Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University (2017, Washington DC), Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship (2018-2020, University of Copenhagen), Carlsberg Visiting Fellowship (2020-2023, University of Oxford). She is Assistant Professor in Greek Literature ('non-tenure track researcher') at University of Naples \"L'Orientale.\" Her main research interests include Greek Literature, Historical Linguistics, Indo-Iranian Languages, Comparative Religion, Mythology and Poetics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45660959047759,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":4620.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9783119147699","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}