Poetics of Victory in the Greek West - Epinician, Oral Tradition, and the Deinomenid Empire

Informationen zum Autor Nigel Nicholson is the Dean of Faculty and Walter Mintz Professor of Classics at Reed College. As the author of Aristocracy and Athletics in Archaic and Classical Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2005), his research focuses on epinician, athletics, healthcare and the Greek West. In 2008-09, he served as director of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies program in Sicily and was named Oregon Professor of the Year in 2005. Klappentext By setting epinician in dialogue with the colorful stories about athletes that circulated in the same period, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West offers a new and compelling account of the Deinomenids' self-promotion and of the complex communities within and around the Deinomenid empire. Zusammenfassung By setting epinician in dialogue with the colorful stories about athletes that circulated in the same period, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West offers a new and compelling account of the Deinomenids' self-promotion and of the complex communities within and around the Deinomenid empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTS List of Tables List of Figures Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 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 Conclusion Notes List of Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: Nigel Nicholson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2016
• EAN: 9780190209094
• ISBN: 978-0-19-020909-4
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Greeks Overseas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Ancient / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval