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 BChistory and culture of the Greek island of Aegina, famous for its magnificentarchitecture and sculpture, and for its inhabitants' patronage of some of thegreatest Classical poets. INDICE: David Fearn: Introduction: Aegina in Contexts; I. Contexts for Heroic Myth-Making: Ethnicity, Interstate Relations, Cult, and Commerce; 1: Gregory Nagy: Asopos and his Multiple Daughters: Traces of Preclassical Epic in the Aeginetan Odes of Pindar; 2: James Watson: Rethinking the Sanctuary of Aphaia; 3: Ian Rutherford: 'The Thearion of the Pythian One': The Aeginetan Thearoi in Context; 4: Barbara Kowalzig: Musical Merchandise 'on every vessel': Religion and Trade on Aegina; II. Poetry, Performance, Politics; 5: David Fearn: Aeginetan Epinician Culture: Naming, Ritual, and Politics; 6: Andrew Morrison:Aeginetan Odes, Reperformance, and Intertextuality; III. Interfaces between Poetry, Myth, and Art; 7: Lucia Athanassaki: Giving Wings to the Aeginetan Sculptures: The Panhellenic Aspirations of Pindar's Eighth Olympian; 8: Henrik Indergaard: Thebes, Aegina, and the Temple of Aphaia: A Reading of Pindar's Isthmian 6; 9: Guy Hedreen: The Trojan War, Theoxenia, and Aegina in Pindar's Paean6 and the Aphaia Sculptures; IV. The Historiographical Aftermath; 10: Elizabeth Irwin: Herodotus on Aeginetan Identity; 11: Elizabeth Irwin: 'Lest the things done by men become exitêla': Writing up Aegina in a Late Fifth-Century Context

• ISBN: 978-0-19-954651-0
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 528
• Fecha Publicación: 02/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés