Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry: Myth, History, and Identity in the Fifth Century BC

A collection of essays dealing with different aspects of the fifth-century BC history and culture of the Greek island of Aegina, famous for its magnificent architecture and sculpture and for its inhabitants' patronage of some of the greatest Classical poets.

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Aegina: contexts for choral lyric poetry : myth, history, and identity in the fifth century BC
Aegina in contexts /
Contexts for heroic myth-making :
ethnicity, inter-state relations, cult, and commerce.
Asopos and his multiple daughters :
traces of preclassical epic in the Aeginetan odes of Pindar /
Rethinking the Sanctuary of Aphaia /
The Theārion of the Pythian one :
the Aeginetan Thēaroi in context /
Musical merchandise "on every vessel" :
religion and trade on Aegina /
Poetry, performance, politics.
Aeginetan Epinician culture :
naming, ritual, and politics /
Aeginetan odes, reperformance, and Pindaric intertextuality /
Interfaces between poetry, myth, and art.
Giving wings to the Aeginetan sculptures :
the Panhellenic aspirations of Pindar's Eighth Olympian /
Thebes, Aegina, and the Temple of Aphaia :
a reading of Pindar's Isthmian 6 /
The Trojan War, Theoxenia, and Aegina in Pindar's Paean 6 and the Aphaia sculptures /
The historiographical aftermath.
Herodotus of Aeginetan identity /
Lest the things done by men become exitēla :
writing up Aegina in a late fifth-century context /
1. Verfasser:
Fearn, David
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Zusammenfassung:
A collection of essays dealing with different aspects of the fifth-century BC history and culture of the Greek island of Aegina, famous for its magnificent architecture and sculpture and for its inhabitants' patronage of some of the greatest Classical poets.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvi, 511 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
0-19-159492-X
0-19-954651-7
Schlagworte:
Pindar > Criticism and interpretation.
Kongress > Oxford > 2006.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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