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

• Autore: Fearn David
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 511 p.)
• Disciplina: 938.5
• Soggetto topico: Regions & Countries - Europe; History & Archaeology; Greece
• Soggetto geografico: Aegina Island (Greece) Antiquities; Aegina Island (Greece) Civilization; Aegina Island (Greece) History; Aegina Island (Greece) In literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Kongress2006.Oxford; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; History
• Classificazione: 6,12; FE 1375
• Altri autori: FearnDavid
• 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.
• Titolo abbreviato (Periodici): AEGINA
• Altri titoli varianti: Aegina: contexts for choral lyric poetry : myth, history, and identity in the fifth century BC
• Titolo autorizzato: Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry: Myth, History, and Identity in the Fifth Century BC
• ISBN: 0-19-159492-X; 0-19-954651-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996213129003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno