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.

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Author:   David Fearn (Assistant Professor in Greek Literature, University of Warwick)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.836kg
ISBN:  

9780199546510

ISBN 10:   0199546517
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   02 December 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

David Fearn: Introduction: Aegina in Contexts I. Contexts for Heroic Myth-Making: Ethnicity, Interstate Relations, Cult, and Commerce 1: Gregory Nagy: Asopos and his Multiple Daughters: Traces of Preclassical Epic in the Aeginetan Odes of Pindar 2: James Watson: Rethinking the Sanctuary of Aphaia 3: Ian Rutherford: 'The Thearion of the Pythian One': The Aeginetan Thearoi in Context 4: Barbara Kowalzig: Musical Merchandise 'on every vessel': Religion and Trade on Aegina II. Poetry, Performance, Politics 5: David Fearn: Aeginetan Epinician Culture: Naming, Ritual, and Politics 6: Andrew Morrison: Aeginetan Odes, Reperformance, and Intertextuality III. Interfaces between Poetry, Myth, and Art 7: Lucia Athanassaki: Giving Wings to the Aeginetan Sculptures: The Panhellenic Aspirations of Pindar's Eighth Olympian 8: Henrik Indergaard: Thebes, Aegina, and the Temple of Aphaia: A Reading of Pindar's Isthmian 6 9: Guy Hedreen: The Trojan War, Theoxenia, and Aegina in Pindar's Paean 6 and the Aphaia Sculptures IV. The Historiographical Aftermath 10: Elizabeth Irwin: Herodotus on Aeginetan Identity 11: Elizabeth Irwin: 'Lest the things done by men become exitela': Writing up Aegina in a Late Fifth-Century Context

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

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