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Record Nr.

UNISA996213129003316

Autore

Fearn David

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-159492-X

0-19-954651-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 511 p.)

Classificazione

6,12

FE 1375

Altri autori (Persone)

FearnDavid

Disciplina

938.5

Soggetti

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

Greece

Kongress2006.Oxford

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Aegina Island (Greece) Antiquities

Aegina Island (Greece) Civilization

Aegina Island (Greece) History

Aegina Island (Greece) In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction : Aegina in contexts / David Fearn -- 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 / Gregory Nagy ; Rethinking the Sanctuary of Aphaia / James Watson ; The Theārion of the Pythian one : the Aeginetan Thēaroi in context / Ian Rutherford ; Musical merchandise "on every vessel" : religion and trade on Aegina / Barbara Kowalzig -- Poetry, performance, politics. Aeginetan Epinician culture : naming, ritual, and politics / David Fearn ; Aeginetan odes, reperformance, and Pindaric intertextuality / Andrew Morrison -- Interfaces between poetry, myth, and art. Giving wings to the Aeginetan sculptures : the



Panhellenic aspirations of Pindar's Eighth Olympian / Lucia Athanassaki ; Thebes, Aegina, and the Temple of Aphaia : a reading of Pindar's Isthmian 6 / Henrik Indergaard ; The Trojan War, Theoxenia, and Aegina in Pindar's Paean 6 and the Aphaia sculptures / Guy Hedreen -- The historiographical aftermath. Herodotus of Aeginetan identity / Elizabeth Irwin ; Lest the things done by men become exitēla : writing up Aegina in a late fifth-century context / Elizabeth Irwin.

Sommario/riassunto

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.