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The poetics of victory in the Greek West : epinician, oral tradition, and the Deinomenid empire

Title
The poetics of victory in the Greek West : epinician, oral tradition, and the Deinomenid empire / Nigel Nicholson.
Author
Nicholson, Nigel James
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

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xviii, 353 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
"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 the 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 Greek West, what meanings it already carried, and what meanings it accrued as it was appropriated by Hieron the second Deinomenid ruler"--
Series Statement
Greeks overseas
Uniform Title
Greeks overseas.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The Hero-Athlete Narrative -- Epinician and the Hero-Athlete Narrative -- Politics and Athlopolitics in Sicily and Southern Italy -- Epizephyrian Locri : Hagesidamus and Euthymus -- Croton : Astylus and Philippus -- Sicily under Gelon : The Two Glaucuses -- Sicily under and after Hieron : Ergoteles of Himera and Tisander of Naxos -- Beyond the Deinomenids : Alexidamus of Metapontum.
Call Number
JFE 15-7520
ISBN
  • 9780190209094
  • 0190209097
LCCN
2015008771
OCLC
908373982
Author
Nicholson, Nigel James, author.
Title
The poetics of victory in the Greek West : epinician, oral tradition, and the Deinomenid empire / Nigel Nicholson.
Publisher
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Greeks overseas
Greeks overseas.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 15-7520
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