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IN aNcIeNt Greece, interstate relations, such as in the formation of allianc- K
Bodily Arts es, calls for assistance, exchanges of citizenship, and territorial conquest, were I Periklean Athens and Its Legacy
often grounded in mythical kinship. In these cases, the common ancestor was N
Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece Problems and Perspectives
most often a legendary figure from whom both communities claimed descent.
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In this detailed study, Lee E. Patterson elevates the current state of research
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on kinship myth to a consideration of the role it plays in the construction of
The role of athletics in ancient Greece extended well
political and cultural identity. He draws examples both from the literary and
beyond the realms of kinesiology, competition, and I The specially commissioned essays in this volume
epigraphical records and shows the fundamental difference between the two. He
entertainment. In teaching and philosophy, athletic P offer a fresh, innovative panorama of the art, archi-
also expands his study into the question of Greek credulity—how much of these
practices overlapped with rhetorical ones and formed tecture, history, culture, and influence of Periklean
founding myths did they actually believe, and how much was just a useful fiction
a shared mode of knowledge production. Bodily Arts M Athens. Written by leading experts in the field, the
for diplomatic relations? Of central importance is the authority the Greeks gave
examines this intriguing intersection, offering an articles cover a wide range of topics, including:
important context for understanding the attitudes of to myth, whether to elaborate narratives or to a simple acknowledgment of an Y
ancestor. Most Greeks could readily accept ties of interstate kinship even when
ancient Greeks toward themselves and their environ- T • An evaluation of Perikles’ military leadership
local origin narratives could not be reconciled smoothly or when myths used to
ment. In classical society, rhetoric was an activity, during the early stages of the Peloponnesian War
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explain the link between communities were only “discovered” upon the actual
one that was in essence “performed.” Detailing how • Iconographical and iconological studies of vase
occasion of diplomacy, because such claims had been given authority in the col-
athletics came to be rhetoric’s “twin art” in the bodily paintings, wall paintings, and sculpture
lective memory of the Greeks. I
aspects of learning and performance, Bodily Arts N • Explorations of the Parthenon and other
This study enriches the dialogue on how societies often use myth to construct
draws on diverse orators and philosophers such as monuments of the Athenian Akropolis
Isocrates, Demosthenes, and Plato, as well as medi- political, social, and cultural identity—hardly unique to the ancient Greeks, it is A • The legacy of Periklean Athens and its influence
rather a human phenomenon for a culture to embrace an identity grounded in a
cal treatises and a wealth of artifacts from the time, N upon later art
putative ancestry that is expressed in the traditional stories of that culture.
including statues and vases. • Assessments of the modern reception of the
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lee e. patterson is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern
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Kinship My th in
Ancient Greece
Lee e. Patterson
University of texas Press
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This book has been supported by an endowment dedicated to classics
and the ancient world and funded by the Areté Foundation; the Gladys
Krieble Delmas Foundation; the Dougherty Foundation; the James R.
Dougherty, Jr. Foundation; the Rachael and Ben Vaughan Foundation;
and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Patterson, Lee.
Kinship myth in ancient Greece / Lee E. Patterson. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Kinship—Greece—History. 2. Mythology, Greek. 3. Civilization,
Ancient. 4. Greece—Civilization. 5. Greece—Foreign relations.
6. Greece—Politics and government. I. Title.
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For my father,
Stanley Mac Patterson,
and in loving memory of my mother,
Vanessa Leigh Patterson
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Contents
Abbreviations ix
Note on Translations and Transliterations xi
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
1. Kinship and Constructed Identities 1
2. Credulity and Historical Causation 22
3. Kinship Myth in the Literary Sources 45
Alliances and Assistance
4. Kinship Myth in the Literary Sources 69
Conquests and Territorial Possession
5. Alexander the Great 83
6. Epigraphical Evidence of Kinship Diplomacy 109
Paradigmatic Inscriptions
7. Epigraphical Evidence of Kinship Diplomacy 124
Local Myths in Pausanias
8. Conclusions 154
Appendix One. The Historical
Context of Plutarch, solon 8–10 165
KinshiP Myth in ancient Greece
Appendix Two. Greek Myth and
Macedonian Identity 170
Appendix Three. A Tale of Two Phoci 174
Notes 177
Bibliography 221
Index Locorum 235
General Index 247
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Abbreviations
AJA American Journal of Archaeology
AJAH American Journal of Ancient History
AJP American Journal of Philology
AncW Ancient World
Bernabé Poetarum Epicorum Graecorum, ed. A. Bernabé
CA Classical Antiquity
CJ Classical Journal
CP Classical Philology
CQ Classical Quarterly
DK Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, eds. H. Diels and
W. Kranz
Erbse Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem (scholia vetera),
ed. Hartmut Erbse
FGrH Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, ed. F. Jacoby
G&R Greece and Rome
GHI Greek Historical Inscriptions, eds. Meiggs and Lewis
GRBS Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
IC Inscriptiones Creticae
IG Inscriptiones Graecae
I.v. Magnesia Die Inschriften von Magnesia am Maeander, ed. O. Kern
I.v. Pergamon Die Inschriften von Pergamon (Altertümer von Pergamon
Vol. 8), ed. M. Fränkel
I.v. Priene Die Inschriften von Priene, ed. C. Fredrich
JCH Journal of Contemporary History
JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies
JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies
JSemStud Journal of Semitic Studies
LIMC Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae
