Receiving the Komos Ancient & Modern Receptions of the Victory Ode

Contributors -- Editors' preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction / Peter Agócs, Chris Carey and Richard Rawles -- The victory ode in literature / Chris Carey -- Hellenistic Epinician / Silvia Barbantani -- Horace's 'victory odes': artfices of praise / Armand D'Angour -- ... Literary tradition in Pindar's Nemean 3 and Statius' Achilleid / Dániel Kozák -- On the impossibility of centaurs: the reception of Pindar in the Roman empire / Ian Rutherford -- Ancient readers of Pindar's Epinicians in Egypt: evidence from papyri / Giuseppe Ucciardello -- A mirror for noble deeds: Pindaric form in Jonson's odes and masques / Victoria Moul -- Pindar and English eighteenth-century poetry / Penelope Wilson -- The reception of Pindar's Epinicians and nineteenth-century 'poetic religion': Hölderlin and Kalvos / Vassiliki Dimoula -- Pindar's liberal songs / Filippomaria Pontani.