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The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West - Epinician, Oral Tradition, and the Deinomenid Empire (Hardcover)
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The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West - Epinician, Oral Tradition, and the Deinomenid Empire (Hardcover)
Series: Greeks Overseas
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Total price: R2,533
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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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