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

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

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

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

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199546510
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 02/04/2011
Pages: 528
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

David Fearn is Assistant Professor in Greek LIterature, University of Warwick.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Aegina in Contexts, David FearnI. Contexts for Heroic Myth-Making: Ethnicity, Interstate Relations, Cult, and Commerce1. Asopos and his Multiple Daughters: Traces of Preclassical Epic in the Aeginetan Odes of Pindar, Gregory Nagy2. Rethinking the Sanctuary of Aphaia, James Watson3. 'The Thearion of the Pythian One': The Aeginetan Thearoi in Context, Ian Rutherford4. Musical Merchandise 'on every vessel': Religion and Trade on Aegina, Barbara KowalzigII. Poetry, Performance, Politics5. Aeginetan Epinician Culture: Naming, Ritual, and Politics, David Fearn6. Aeginetan Odes, Reperformance, and Intertextuality, Andrew MorrisonIII. Interfaces between Poetry, Myth, and Art7. Giving Wings to the Aeginetan Sculptures: The Panhellenic Aspirations of Pindar's Eighth Olympian, Lucia Athanassaki8. Thebes, Aegina, and the Temple of Aphaia: A Reading of Pindar's Isthmian 6, Henrik Indergaard9. The Trojan War, Theoxenia, and Aegina in Pindar's Paean 6 and the Aphaia Sculptures, Guy HedreenIV. The Historiographical Aftermath10. Herodotus on Aeginetan Identity, Elizabeth Irwin11. 'Lest the things done by men become exitela': Writing up Aegina in a Late Fifth-Century Context, Elizabeth Irwin
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