The world of Ion of Chios / edited by Victoria Jennings, Andrea Katsaros.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jennings, Victoria, 1970-

Katsaros, Andrea.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 288.

Mnemosyne ; v. 288

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ion, of Chios.

Ion.

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Physical Description:

xiv, 449 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Summary:

Sixteen international contributors investigate the life, works and reception of Ion of Chios (490/80-420s BC), the prolific Greek writer famed in antiquity for his polyeideia. His extraordinary range of writings in prose and poetry across multiple genres includes tragedy, elegy, history, biography, mythography and philosophy. Ion is important to any study of Classical Greece because of the literary innovations which he pioneered. He is significant to the history of Athens and Chios as a contemporary of and commentator on Aeschylus, Cimon, Sophocles, Pericles, Themistocles and Socrates. This book is the first to examine how this fascinating but neglected author interacted with his peers and conceptualized himself and his world during one of the most exciting periods of ancient history.

Contents:

Part 1 Survival

Chapter 2 The Hocus of a Hedgehog: Ion's Versatility / John Henderson 17

Chapter 3 Shot from the Canon: Sources, Selections, Survivals / Guy Olding 45

Chapter 4 The Poet and the Place: A Modern Chian Perspective on Ion of Chios and his Home Island / Nikos K. Haviaras 64

Part 2 Ion Sungrapheos

Chapter 5 Ion's Epidemiai and Plutarch's Ion / Christopher Pelling 75

Chapter 6 Ion of Chios and Politics / Anne Geddes 110

Chapter 7 Ion the Wineman: The Manipulation of Myth / Guy Olding 139

Chapter 8 Trapped between Athens and Chios: A Relationship in Fragments / Alastair Blanshard 155

Part 3 Ion the Poet

Chapter 9 Ion of Chios and the Politics of Polychordia / Timothy Power 179

Chapter 10 Snowy Helen and Bull-Faced Wine: Ion and the Logic of Poetic Language / Michael Clarke 206

Chapter 11 Staging Empire and Other in Ion's Sympotica / Andrea Katsaros 217

Part 4 Ion the Tragedian

Chapter 12 Ion of Chios: Tragedy as Commodity at the Athenian Exchange / Alexander Stevens 243

Chapter 13 Ion of Chios, Sophocles, and Myth / Judith Maitland 266

Chapter 14 Looking for Omphale / Pat Easterling 282

Part 5 Ion the Philosopher?

Chapter 15 Playing the Pythagorean: Ion's Triagmos / Han Baltussen 295

Chapter 16 Legwork: Ion's Socrates / Richard Fletcher 319

Chapter 17 Ion's Hymn to Kairos / Victoria Jennings 331

Concordance to the Fragments of Ion of Chios 383.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-381) and indexes.

ISBN:

9004160450

9789004160453

OCLC:

163585513