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1 online resource (481 pages) : illustrations, map. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Greeks overseas
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Greeks overseas.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
""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"" |
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""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"" |
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""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"" |
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""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"" |
| Summary |
"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 the Sicilian tyrant were part of an extensive cultural program that included athletic competition, coinage, architecture, sanctuary dedication, city foundation, and much more ... Pindar's victory odes are an important contribution to Hieron's goal of panhellenic pre-eminence, redescribing contemporary tyranny as an instantiation of golden-age kingship"-- Book jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pindar -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Pindar. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Greek literature -- History and criticism.
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Greek literature. |
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Syracuse (Italy) -- History.
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Greece -- Colonies.
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Greece. |
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Colonies. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic book.
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| Cover Title |
Pindar & the construction of Syracusan monarchy in the fifth century B.C. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Morgan, Kathryn A. Pindar and the construction of Syracusan monarchy in the fifth century B.C. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2015] Greeks overseas 9780199366859 (DLC) 10992249 |
| ISBN |
9780199366866 (e-book) |
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0199366861 (e-book) |
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0199366853 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780199366859 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780199366859 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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