PINDAR ΙΣΧΝΟΦΩΝΟΣ (SCHOL. IN PI. O. 6.88). (6th December 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bartol, Krystyna
• Is Part Of: Cambridge classical journal. Volume 63(2017)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 10
• Publication Date: 2017-12-06
• Subjects: Classical philology -- Periodicals; Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 880.05
• DOI: 10.1017/S1750270517000070
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1750-2705

Abstract

Abstract : I argue in this article that the scholiast's claim (schol. in Pi. O. 6.88) that Pindar was ἰσχνόφωνος meant that he was believed to be a stammerer rather than a weak-voiced person. I have attempted to show how later commentators developed some points of Alexandrian critics' judgement of Pindar's poetry into a conventional biographical reference to the poet's speech defect.