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Title:

Aegina : contexts for choral lyric poetry : myth, history, and identity in the fifth century BC / edited by David Fearn.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xvi, 511 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Aegina Island (Greece)--Antiquities.
Aegina Island (Greece)--Civilization.
Aegina Island (Greece)--History.
Aegina Island (Greece)--In literature.
Pindar--Criticism and interpretation.

Other Authors:

Fearn, David, 1975-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [458]-486) and indexes.

Contents:

Introduction : writing up Aegina in a late fifth-century context / Elizabeth Irwin. 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.

ISBN:

0199546517 (hbk.)
9780199546510 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)653082389

LCCN:

2010936879

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)