Splendor and Sovereignty: Hiero’s Celebration in Bacchylides’ Ode 5
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Bacchylides, Epinicean 5, Hiero of Syracuse, EpithetsAbstract
This paper aims to demonstrate how Hiero of Syracuse is celebrated through Bacchylides’ choice of words in his Ode 5. Despite the ode’s remarkable obscurity regarding its myth and the pessimism of its gnṓmē, it is possible to notice the echoes of prosperity, vitality, and festivity that follow the moment of the ode’s performance and its main feature: the encomium. From the use of unconventional epithets, mostly chromatic ones, or epithets that imply amplitude and movement, we can grasp how the poet explores the limits of the human condition, from the peaks of fortune to the abysses of ruin.References
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