| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 511 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : Aegina in contexts / David Fearn -- Part I. 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 -- Part II. Poetry, Performance, Politics. -- Aeginetan Epinician culture : naming, ritual, and politics / David Fearn -- Aeginetan odes, reperformance, and Pindaric intertextuality / Andrew Morrison -- Part III. 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 -- Part IV. 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 |
| Summary |
Situated in the centre of the Saronic Gulf, the island of Aegina has long been recognized as a powerful force in the cultural, political, economic, and strategic history of fifth-century Greece. The island is well known as the original home of the magnificent Doric architecture and sculpture of the Temple of Aphaia and of many of the patrons of the epinician poets Pindar and Bacchylides; with a thriving maritime economy and an effective navy, Aegina was powerful enough to challenge the security and ambitions of its neighbour Athens, by whom it was reduced to a kleruchy at the start of the Peloponnesian War. Many of the fascinating aspects of the island within the history and culture of fifth-century Greece have, however, been studied separately, rendering a rounded view of the significance of the island, and the significance of the island's choral lyric poetry, difficult. This volume aims to redress the balance by suggesting ways in which the different aspects of the island's make-up can fruitfully be explored together. Eleven chapters by established and younger scholars examine different aspects of the island's nature, and factors which link them: mythological genealogies, economics, cult song, religion, athletics, epinician poetry, inter-state networking, aristocratic politics and culture, art history, and the views of the island offered by classical historiography. The interdisciplinary nature of the volume aims to provide new insights into the diversity and significance of classical Greek history and culture, as well as being suggestive for future research on the cultural and political diversity of classical Greece |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 458-486) and indexes |
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Pindar -- Criticism and interpretation
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Pindar fast |
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Antiquities
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Civilization
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Literature
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Aigina (Greece : Municipality) -- Antiquities
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Aigina (Greece : Municipality) -- Civilization
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Aigina (Greece : Municipality) -- History
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Aigina (Greece : Municipality) -- In literature
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Greece -- Aigina (Municipality)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fearn, David, 1975-
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| ISBN |
9780191594922 |
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019159492X |
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