Virginia M Lewis

Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar's Sicilian Odes

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Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that Pindar engages in a striking, innovative style of mythmaking that represents and shapes Sicilian identities in his epinician odes for Sicilian victors in the fifth century BCE, and it contributes new insights into current debates on the relationship between myth and place in classical literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780190910310
• ISBN-10: 0190910313
• Artikelnr.: 57147407

Autorenporträt

Virginia Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Florida State University.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Figures
* Acknowledgments
* List of Editions and Abbreviations
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Arriving in Syracuse: Arethusa and syracusan civic
identity
* Chapter 2: Demeter and persephone: ancestral cult and Sicilian
identity
* Chapter 3: Locating aitnaian identity in pindar's pythian 1
* Chapter 4: Fluid Identities: the river akragas and the shaping of
akragantine identity in Olympian 2
* Chapter 5: Conclusions and test cases: Ergoteles of Himera and
Psaumis of Kamarina
* Bibliography
* Subject Index
* Index Locorum