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Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar's Sicilian Odes (Hardcover)
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Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar's Sicilian Odes (Hardcover)
Series: Greeks Overseas
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Myth, Locality, and Identity argues that Pindar engages in a
striking, innovative style of mythmaking that represents and shapes
Sicilian identities in his epinician odes for Sicilian victors in
the fifth century BCE. While Sicily has been thought to be lacking
in local traditions for Pindar to celebrate, Lewis argues that the
Sicilian odes offer examples of the formation of local traditions:
the monster Typho whom Zeus defeated to become king of the gods,
for example, now lives beneath Mt. Aitna; Persephone receives the
island of Sicily as a gift from Zeus; and the Peloponnesian river
Alpheos travels to Syracuse in pursuit of the local spring nymph
Arethusa. By weaving regional and Panhellenic myth into the local
landscape, as the book shows, Pindar infuses physical places with
meaning and thereby contextualizes people, cities, and their rulers
within a wider Greek framework. During this time period, Greek
Sicily experienced a unique set of political circumstances: the
inhabitants were continuously being displaced, cities were founded
and resettled, and political leaders rose and fell from power in
rapid succession. This book offers the first sustained analysis of
myth in Pindar's odes for Sicilian victors across the island that
accounts for their shared context. The nodes of myth and place that
Pindar fuses in this poetry reinforce and develop a sense of place
and community for citizens locally; at the same time, they raise
the profile of physical sites and the cities attached to them for
larger audiences across the Greek world. In addition to providing
new readings of Pindaric odes and offering a model for the
formation of Sicilian identities in the first half of the fifth
century, the book contributes new insights into current debates on
the relationship between myth and place in classical literature.
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