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Pindar and the construction of Syracusan monarchy in the fifth century B.C. /
"This groundbreaking book offers a fully contextualized reading of the poetry written by Pindar for Hieron of Syracuse in the 470s B.C. Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B.C. contends that the victory odes and other occasional songs composed by Pindar for th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Greeks overseas.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Cover""; ""Series""; ""Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century b.c.""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Editions and Abbreviations""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction""; ""Chapter 2 The Deinomenids and Syracuse""; ""Introduction""; ""The Battle of Himera and Its Significance""; ""Architecture""; ""Sicilian Policy""; ""Coinage""; ""Athletics""; ""Conclusion: Models""; ""Chapter 3 Poets and Patrons in Hieron�s Syracuse""; ""Introduction""; ""Musical Culture in Syracuse and Its Context""; ""Performance""
- ""Patronage and Fees""""The Discourse of Tyranny""; ""Chapter 4 Placing Hieron""; ""Themistokles""; ""Pausanias""; ""The Plataia Elegy""; ""Epigrams and Panhellenism""; ""Hieron and Epigrams""; ""Timocreon of Rhodes""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 5 Pythian 2: A Royal Poetics""; ""Occasion""; ""Hieron, Master of Animals""; ""Ixion""; ""Safe Praise""; ""Problems of Slander""; ""Specificity and Generality""; ""Chapter 6 Olympian 1: Feasting at the King�s Hearth""; ""Introduction""; ""Brilliant Dynasts and Just Kings""; ""Legends of the Fall""; ""Walking on High""; ""Coda: Bacchylides 5""
- ""Chapter 7 Pythian 3: Victory over Vicissitude""""Date and Occasion""; ""Unattainable Wishes""; ""Paradigms of Transgression""; ""Gaining Perspective""; ""Exploiting the “Possible Device�""; ""Nestor and Sarpedon""; ""Conclusion""; ""Chapter 8 Pythian 1: A Civic Symphony""; ""Introduction""; ""The Triumph of Harmony""; ""Typhon and the West""; ""Victory as Omen""; ""“The kind of honor that none of the Greeks reaps�""; ""Dorian Constitutionalism""; ""Sailing the Ship of State""; ""Conclusion""; ""Coda: Bacchylides Ode 4, Fr. 20C, Ode 3""
- ""Chapter 9 Henchmen (Nemean 9, Nemean 1, Olympian 6)""""Introduction""; ""Nemean 9""; ""Nemean 1""; ""Olympian 6""; ""Conclusion""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Subject Index""; ""Index of Passages Cited""