Obras Completas de Píndaro [Complete Odes of Pindar]

México: Editorial Jus, 1972. 1. ed. 380 pages; 22 cm. Tight and crisp with very minor external soiling. Very good+ to near fine(-). . Paperback.

In Spanish. Scarce. Exemplar 119 of 1,500 copies - colophon. Clásicos Universales Jus; 15 [series]. | Pindar's odes in an original Spanish translation. Poesía griega -- Traducciones al español.  | Pindar of Thebes (c. 518–438 BCE) was the foremost Greek composer of epinicia, choral odes celebrating victors at the four Panhellenic games (Olympian, Pythian, Nemean, Isthmian). Forty-five survive complete, an unusually rich corpus for archaic lyric. Structured in triads (strophe, antistrophe, epode) for choral performance, the odes are marked by dense diction and characteristic digression into myth and gnomic reflection—the so-called "Pindaric leap." Once seen as digressive, this technique is now understood, following Elroy Bundy's influential mid-twentieth-century analysis, as purposeful epideictic rhetoric unifying myth and occasion in praise of the victor. This is a modern direct translatoin from the Ancient Greek to Spanish.