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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Fearn, David, Author.

Contributor:

• Fearn, David

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Aigina (Greece : Municipality)--Antiquities.
• Aigina (Greece : Municipality)--Civilization.
• Aigina (Greece : Municipality)--History.
• Aigina (Greece : Municipality)--In literature.
• Pindar--Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

• Kongress -- Oxford -- 2006.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 511 p.)

Other Title:

Aegina: contexts for choral lyric poetry : myth, history, and identity in the fifth century BC

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of essays dealing with different aspects of the fifth-century BC history and culture of the Greek island of Aegina, famous for its magnificent architecture and sculpture and for its inhabitants' patronage of some of the greatest Classical poets.

Contents:

• Introduction : Aegina in contexts / David Fearn
• 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.

Notes:

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Includes bibliographical references.
• Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Dec. 16, 2010).

Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

• 0-19-159492-X
• 0-19-954651-7