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:

1 online resource (465 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

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 include 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 man interacted with his peers and conceptualized himself and his world during one of the most exciting periods of ancient history.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Dr. Katsaros and Jennings

Chapter One. Introduction / Victoria Jennings and Andrea Katsaros

Chapter Two. The hocus of a hedgehog: Ion’s versatility / John Henderson

Chapter Three. Shot from the canon: Sources, selections, survivals / Guy Olding

Chapter Four. The poet and the place: A modern Chian perspective on Ion of Chios and his home Island / Nikos K. Haviaras

Chapter Five. Ion’s epidemiai and Plutarch’s Ion / Christopher Pelling

Chapter Six. Ion of Chios and politics / Anne Geddes

Chapter Seven. Ion the Wineman: The manipulation of myth / Guy Olding

Chapter Eight. Trapped between Athens and Chios: A relationship in fragments / Alastair Blanshard

Chapter Nine. Ion of Chios and the politics of Polychordia / Timothy Power

Chapter Ten. Snowy Helen and Bull-Faced Wine: Ion and the logic of poetic language / Michael Clarke

Chapter Eleven. Staging empire and other in Ion’s Sympotica / Andrea Katsaros

Chapter Twelve. Ion of Chios: Tragedy as commodity at the athenian exchange / Alexander Stevens

Chapter Thirteen. Ion of Chios, Sophocles, and Myth / Judith Maitland

Chapter Fourteen. Looking for Omphale / Pat Easterling

Chapter Fifteen. Playing the Pythagorean: Ion’s Triagmos / Han Baltussen

Chapter Sixteen. Legwork: Ion’s Socrates / Richard Fletcher

Chapter Seventeen. Ion’s hymn to Kairos / Victoria Jennings

Bibliography / Dr. Katsaros and Jennings

Concordance to the fragments of Ion of Chios / Dr. Katsaros and Jennings

Index of passages cited / Dr. Katsaros and Jennings

Greek index / Dr. Katsaros and Jennings

General index / Dr. Katsaros and Jennings.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-93601-4

9786611936013

90-474-2118-3

OCLC:

646788911

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004160453.i-451 DOI