The Poetics of Syntax: Pindar and the Vedic Rishis
By Annette Teffeteller
Recent work on the poetic grammar of Pindar has emphasized the interaction of syntactic and metrical constituency and prosodic features of the language in relation to the syntactic and metrical boundaries of the verse. This work has also taken into account the value of comparison of these aspects of Pindar’s lyric verse with the hymns of the Rigveda (Watkins 2002a, 2002b), following an early account of parallels in the metrical systems of the Greek and Indic traditions (Meillet 1923).