Pindar's Library is the first volume to analyse the role played by Pindar's literary, cultic, and scholarly reception in affecting readers' engagement with his poetry, considering the continuities between reading and attending performances, and highlighting elements of readers' experiences which were distinctive to Hellenistic culture.

• List of Abbreviations


• Introduction


• Part I: Contexts: To Alexandria and Beyond


• 1: Texts and Metatexts


• 2: Passing on the Garland: Reception and Material Sites


• Part II: Singing Pages


• 3: Edited Highlights


• 4: Marginalia: Textual Encounters in the Scholia


• 5: Closing the Book: Olympian 14


• 6: Pythians 11 and 12: Materiality, Intertextuality, Closure


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Index

Tom Phillips is Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Merton College, the University of Oxford.