The Genealogical Background of Pindar’s Fourth Pythian and its Religious Implications

Abstract

The point of the contribution consists first and foremost in the genealogical table to Pindar’s Fourth Pythian. It depicts the complex relations that otherwise remain only implied in the ode and makes them easily accessible to the eye of the reader. Thanks to the working out of the net, Pindar’s Apolline theology in Pythian 4 was able to come to the fore substantially more clearly. Eventually, the paper contextualizes the table in the milieu of the specifically Archaic functioning of Greek myths in a dialogue with objections to such genealogies.

Keywords

Pindar | Pythian 4 | Argonautica | genealogy | Archaic poetry | Greek mythology | Apollo

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