Pindar's epinikia were poems commissioned to celebrate athletic
victories in the first half of the fifth century BCE. Drawing on
the insights of interpretive anthropology and cultural history,
Leslie Kurke examines the odes as public performances which enact
the reintegration of the athletic victor into his heterogeneous
communities. These communities-the victor's household, his
aristocratic class, and his city-represent competing, sometimes
conflicting interests, which the epinikian poet must satisfy to
accomplish his project of reintegration. Kurke considers in
particular the different modes of exchange in which Pindar's poetry
participated: the symbolic economy of the household, gift exchange
between aristocratic houses, and the workings of monetary exchange
within the city. Her analysis produces an archaeology of Pindar's
poetry, exposing multiple systems of imagery that play on different
shared cultural models to appeal to the various segments of the
poet's audience.
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