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grbs-15889	Prodi, Enrico Emanuele	Text as Paratext: Pindar, Sappho, and Alexandrian Editions	2017	36	.pdf	application/pdf	13454	557	64	Pindar: other fragments The Pindaric corpus offers a third, even more tentative example of how to do things with opening poems. After all, Hellenistic and Roman readers were used to seeing poetry books of their own time begin with such introductory poems, just as they were used to seeing longer poems begin with a proem fulfilling a similar function.13 It may have come naturally to expect pro- oemial overtones in the first poem in a book, and therefore to read them into it regardless of the poem’s original purpose.	cache/grbs-15889.pdf	txt/grbs-15889.txt