The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West

Epinician, Oral Tradition, and the Deinomenid Empire

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives, " that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on the colorful stories told about athletes in later sources, the fragments of Simonides and the surviving odes of Pindar and Bacchylides, it argues that epinician was formed in opposition to orally transmitted narratives and that these two forms-epinician and the "hero-athlete narrative "-promoted opposed political visions, with epinician promoting the Deinomenid empire and its structures and the hero-athlete narrative opposing Deinomenid rule. Combining an intimate knowledge of the material culture of the Greek West with an innovative use of available source material, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West exposes the rich intersections between athletics and politics in Sicily and Italy, offering a new and compelling account of Deinomenid self-promotion and of the varied and complex communities that operated under Deinomenids' control or within their shadow. Further, by establishing models of production and interpretation for the orally transmitted narratives and bringing them into dialogue with epinician, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West reveals much about epinician as a form, how it developed in the West, what meanings it already carried and what meanings it accrued as it was appropriated by Hieron after Gelon's death.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-11-05
Mått234 x 160 x 25 mm
Vikt664 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGreeks Overseas
Antal sidor376
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780190209094

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Nigel Nicholson is the Dean of Faculty and Walter Mintz Professor of Classics at Reed College. As the author of Aristocracy and Athletics in Archaic and Classical Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2005), his research focuses on epinician, athletics, healthcare and the Greek West. In 2008-09, he served as director of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies program in Sicily and was named Oregon Professor of the Year in 2005.

CONTENTS ; List of Tables ; List of Figures ; Abbreviations ; Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; The Hero-Athlete Narrative ; Epinician and the Hero-Athlete Narrative ; Politics and Athlopolitics in Sicily and Southern Italy ; Epizephyrian Locri: Hagesidamus and Euthymus ; Croton: Astylus and Philippus ; Sicily under Gelon: The Two Glaucuses ; Sicily under and after Hieron: Ergoteles of Himera and Tisander of Naxos ; Beyond the Deinomenids: Alexidamus of Metapontum ; Conclusion ; Notes ; List of Works Cited ; Index

"Nicholson meticulously demonstrates that athletic victors adopted a particular stance toward the Deinomenid empire when they chose to be honored either in epinician or through oral narratives. Decoding for the first time the politicization of these competing genres in the Greek west, this book will be required reading for all interested in the ideological operations of ancient Greek literature." -Margaret Foster, Indiana University"This is a brilliant book. Nicholson combines breathtaking control of the history, archaeology, numismatics, and topography of Sicily and South Italy with an ambitious new model of epinician and local oral narratives as co-existing, competing forms. The result is a richly textured account of the politics of form in the history of the Greek West." -Leslie Kurke, University of California, Berkeley

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