First-Person Fictions - Pindar's Poetic `I' - Mary R. (Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities Lefkowitz

Who is the \I\ in the odes of the celebrated ancient Greek poet Pindar? This collection of essays proposes a controversial answer: Pindar speaks for himself and the odes were sung as solos rather than by a chorus, as had been supposed in later Antiquity.