Les banquets et l'ambiguïté : autour de la première Olympique de Pindare

The present book studies metaphors relating to the Ancient Greek banquet and symposion (drinking party) in the poetry of Pindar from Thebes (518–438 BC). The focus is on the First Olympian Ode composed in honor of Hieron, the ruler of Syracuse, whose horse and its jockey were victorious in the single horse race in Olympia in 476 BC. ...