laudator

... audandus in this victory ode, means ‘he who has the glories-of-men [klea andrōn]’. On the technical terms laudandus and laudator, see the Inventory of terms and names. The role of K ... Continue reading

... he divine personifications of kharis ‘gratification; pleasurable beauty, grace’, is a symbol of reciprocity between the laudator and the laudandus. In the song here, the kharites ar ... Continue reading

... patron. Here the collective voice of the performance re-enacts the voice of the poet as he speaks to his patron. As the laudator addresses the laudandus, he claims control over a kl ... Continue reading