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My reading focused on the four chapters in which Nagy treats the stirring (and heretofore unexplored) correspondences between the lyric poetry of Pindar and the ancient world's first great prose achievement, the Histories of Herodotus. Nagy's chapters remain the fundamental study for four aspects of interrelation: the ways in which both writers talk about their own work, the narrators' techniques of establishing authority, the representations of tyranny in both genres, and the convergent purpose...