While athletic competition relies on comparison (the necessary similarity of opponents, rules, conditions of victory), epinician poetry claims superlative fame and similarly singular victors. By addressing all explicit and implicit instances of losers and losing, and by paying close attention to epinician language (particularly boasts and litotes), this article deconstructs the naturalized binary of winner/loser in the poetry of Pindar and Bacchylides. Athletic competition, which is structured around similarity, problematizes the matchless fame of epinican and therefore epinician poetry, paradoxically, must work against the essential elements of the very action (i.e., sporting victory) that it purports to celebrate.

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在赞誉的阴影中：雅各布的失败和雅各布的诗歌

尽管体育比赛依靠比较（对手的必要相似性，规则，胜利条件），但附魔诗人却声称其名声很高，而胜利者也同样是奇异的。通过解决所有失败者和失败者的显性和隐性实例，并通过密切关注Epinician语言（尤其是吹牛和小字），本文解构了Pindar和Bacchylides诗歌中获胜者/失败者的自然二元。以相似性为基础的运动竞赛使附庸主义者无与伦比的名誉受到质疑，因此，附庸主义者的诗歌反常地必须与它所要庆祝的行动（即体育胜利）的基本要素背道而驰。