Inscribing Performances in Pindar’s Olympian 6

Abstract

This Paper Explores the Performances Inscribed in the Text of Olympian 6, thus offering a new perspective to the question surrounding the intended location of the ode’s premiere. A careful consideration of the poem points to a first performance in Stymphalos of Arcadia. I argue, however, that at the same time the ode creates and reiterates the anticipation of a subsequent choral performance in Syracuse. This expectation of a future reperformance is constructed primarily through the poem’s treatment of the visual and the visible.