Studies in the Reception of Pindar in Ptolemaic Poetry

This monograph examines the reception of Pindar in the poetry produced at the court of the first three Ptolemies (ca. 305¿222 BCE). Through active engagement with the works of Pindar, poets such as Callimachus, Theocritus, Apollonius, and Posidippus responded to the encomiastic needs of their Ptolemaic patrons and fashioned an image of Pindar as the praise poet par excellence.