Aegina

Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry: Myth, History, and Identity in the Fifth Century BC
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-954651-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 869 g

Helps us understand the culture of an important fifth-century Greek society beyond Athens
Broad in its approach, bringing several different subdisciplines together
Moves from fresh readings of canonical texts to imaginative interpretations of the material record, to larger ethical, social, and economic connections

This collection of essays by notable scholars from a variety of disciplines deals with different aspects of the history and culture of the Greek island of Aegina in the fifth century BC. The island is well known as the home of magnificent architecture and sculpture; as the patron of impressive lyric poetry composed by Pindar and his contemporaries; and, from the pages of Herodotus, as a significant trading power, and military threat to her great neighbour Athens. The book brings together experts on choral lyric poetry, myth, art-history, and historiography, with the aim of offering a broad view of the island's significance in some of the major trends in fifth-century Greek history and culture, and situating the island's patronage of some of the greatest Classical poets within broader cultural and historical frames.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of Classical literature; of Greek history, politics, economics, and religion; of comparative literature; of the social history of music, art history, and sport.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fearn, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Paean 6 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

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by David Fearn, Assistant Professor in Greek Literature, University of Warwick

Contributors:
Lucia Athanassaki, University of Crete
David Fearn, University of Warwick
Guy Hedreen, Williams College
Henrik Indergaard, University of Oxford
Elizabeth Irwin, Columbia University
Barbara Kowalzig, Royal Holloway, University of London
Andrew Morrison, University of Manchester
Gregory Nagy, Harvard University
Ian Rutherford, University of Reading
James Watson, University of Cambridge