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  1. Pindar and the construction of Syracusan monarchy in the fifth century B.C
    Author: Morgan, Kathryn A.
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    "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... more

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    "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"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780199366866; 0199366861; 0199366853; 9780199366859
    Series: Greeks overseas
    Subjects: Greek literature
    Other subjects: Pindar
    Scope: Online Ressource (481 pages), illustrations, map.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
  2. Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B. C..
    Author: Morgan, Kathryn A.
    Published: 2015; ©2015
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press USA - OSO, New York

    This book situates Pindar's victory odes for Hieron of Syracuse within the tumultuous context of Syracuse and Greece in the early fifth century BC. It combines exploration of the material and musical culture of Hieron's Syracuse with literary... more

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    This book situates Pindar's victory odes for Hieron of Syracuse within the tumultuous context of Syracuse and Greece in the early fifth century BC. It combines exploration of the material and musical culture of Hieron's Syracuse with literary analysis to demonstrate how Pindar's poetry manipulates epinician form to effect political legitimation. 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.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780199366866
    Series: Greeks Overseas Ser.
    Subjects: Greece - Colonies; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (481 pages)
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