Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire

490 Pages·2007·8.32 MB·English

by  Simon Hornblower

Pindar’s Poetry,
Patrons, and Festivals
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Pindar ’s Poetry,
Patrons, and Festivals
From Archaic Greece
to the Roman Empire
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contents
Notes on Contributors vii
List of Illustrations ix
Abbreviations xiii
Map: The Mediterranean World of Pindar xv
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. Introduction
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2 47
. The Origins of the Festivals, especially Delphi and the Pythia
ohn avies
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3 71
. Origins of the Olympics
tephen nstone
S I
4 83
. Pindar, Athletes, and the Early Greek Statue Habit
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R. R. R. S
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. Fame, Memorial, and Choral Poetry: The Origins
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of Epinikian Poetry—an Historical Study
osalind homas
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6 167
. Epinikian Eidography
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N. J. L
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. Pindar’s Poetry as Poetry: A Literary Commentary
12 177
on Olympian
ichael ilk
M S
8 199
. Pindar, Place, and Performance
hristopher arey
C C
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art 2 211
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9 213
. Debating Patronage: The Cases of Argos and Corinth
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10 265
. Elite Mobility in the West
arla ntonaccio
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. ‘Dolphins in the Sea’ (Isthmian . ): Pindar and
287
the Aeginetans
imon ornblower
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12 309
. Thessalian Aristocracy and Society in the Age of Epinikian
aria tamatopoulou
M S
art 3 343
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. The Entire House is Full of Crowns:
345
Hellenistic Ago¯nes and the Commemoration of Victory
iet van remen
R B
14 377
. ‘Kapeto¯leia Olympia’: Roman Emperors and Greek Ago¯nes
ony pawforth
T S
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. Conclusion: The Prestige of the Games
ary ouglas 391
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Bibliography 409
Index locorum 447
General Index 461
notes on contributors
Carla M. Antonaccio is Professor of Classical Studies at Duke University in North
Carolina. Previously she taught at Wesleyan University. She works on early Greek
history,ritual,andmaterialculture,andhaspublishedextensivelyonGreekheroand
ancestorcult.HermostrecentworkfocusesonearlyGreekcolonizationintheWestern
Mediterranean,especiallyinSicily.Sheisco-directoroftheexcavationsatMorgantina
onSicily,workinginandpublishingtheseventh-tofifth-centurysettlement.
Riet van Bremen teaches Ancient History at University College London. She is the
author of The Limits of Participation: Women and Civic Life in the Greek East in the
HellenisticandRomanperiods(1996).Herresearchinterestsincludetheepigraphyand
history of Asia Minor. She has recently worked and published on Hellenistic Caria.
andispreparingastudyofthesanctuariesatLaginaandPanamara.
Christopher Carey has taught at St Andrews, University of Minnesota, Carleton
College,andRoyalHollowayandiscurrentlyProfessorofGreekatUniversityCollege
London.HehaspublishedonGreeklyricpoetry,Greekoratoryandlaw,Greektragedy
andcomedy.
EmeritusProfessorJohnDaviesFBAwasRathboneProfessorofAncientHistoryand
ClassicalArchaeologyattheUniversityofLiverpoolfrom1977till2003.Hehasedited
two journals (JHS and Archaeological Reports) and three books, and is the author of
AthenianPropertiedFamilies(1971),DemocracyandClassicalGreece(1978;2ndedn.1993),
ofWealthandthePowerofWealth(1981),andofmanyarticlesandchaptersonArchaic,
Classical, andHellenistic Greek history, especially their economic, cultic, andadmin-
istrativeaspects.
Mary Douglas, DBE was born in Italy in 1921. She taught in the Anthropology
DepartmentofUniversityCollegeLondon1951–77,andthenintheUSAuntilretire-
mentin1988;sheisnowanHonoraryResearchFellowatUCL.Theenduringresearch
influence after training in Social Anthropology in Oxford in the late 1940s and early
1950swasfieldworkamongtheLelepeopleintheCongo,butcivilwarsruledoutfield
researchthere.PurityandDanger(1966),whichwasareflectiononconceptsofdefile-
ment and taboo, was followed with various exercises in the comparison of cultures.
ForthelasttwentyyearsshehasconcentratedontheanthropologyoftheBible.
SimonHornblowerisProfessorofClassicsandAncientHistoryatUniversityCollege
London. His most recent book is Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the
World of Epinikian Poetry. He has written the chapter on ‘Greek lyric and the politics
and sociology of archaic and classical Greek communities’ in the forthcoming
Cambridge Companion to Greek Lyric. He is now working on the final volume of a
historicalandliterarycommentaryonThucydidesforOxfordUniversityPress(vols.i
andii,1991and1996).
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Stephen Instone teaches at University College London, where he is an Honorary
Research Fellow. He has published on both Pindar and Greek athletics, and is the
author of Pindar: Selected Odes, Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary
(1996). He is currently working on a new Oxford University Press World’s Classics
editionofPindar’sepinikia,andonareaderofGreekpersonalreligion.
N.J.LoweisSeniorLecturerinClassicsatRoyalHolloway,UniversityofLondon,and
authorofTheClassicalPlotandtheInventionofWesternNarrative(2000).Hisresearch
interestsincludeGreekandRomancomedy,formalistliterarytheory,andthereception
ofantiquityinthenineteenthcentury.Heiscurrentlywritingabookontheconstruc-
tionofancientGreeceinmodernfiction.
Catherine Morgan is Professor of Classical Archaeology at King’s College London.
Her main research is in the archaeology and early history of the Peloponnese and
western Greece, with special focus on sanctuaries. She is currently co-director (for
the British School at Athens) of fieldwork at Stavros, northern Ithaka, jointly con-
ducted with the 6th Ephoria of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities. Her recent
publicationsincludeIsthmiaviii(1999)andEarlyGreekStatesbeyondthePolis(2003).
Michael Silk is Professor of Classical and Comparative Literature at King’s College
London.RecentpublicationsincludeAristophanesandtheDefinitionofComedy(2000)
and Homer: The Iliad (2nd edn. 2004). He is currently writing a book on poetic
language,tobepublishedbyOxfordUniversityPress.
R.R.R.SmithiscurrentlyLincolnProfessorofClassicalArchaeologyandArtatOxford
University.HismainresearchisinthevisualculturesoftheGreekandRomanworlds,
withspecialfocusontheuseandsignificanceofstatues.Heisco-directorofNewYork
University’s excavations at Aphrodisias in Caria, and his most recent book is Roman
PortraitStatuaryfromAphrodisias(forthcoming).
Tony Spawforthis Professor of Ancient Historyat Newcastle University. His books
includeHellenisticandRomanSparta:ATaleofTwoCities(2ndedn.2002),co-written
with Paul Cartledge; The Complete Greek Temples (2006); and The Court and Court
Society in Ancient Monarchies, an edited collection to be published by Cambridge
University Press. He is currently working on a book which explores the Roman
reshapingofGreekidentity,1stcent.bc–3rdcent.ad.
Maria Stamatopoulou is Lecturer in Archaeology at Lincoln College, Oxford. She
specializes in the archaeology of Thessaly. She is preparing her D. Phil. thesis on
Thessalian funerary practices in the fifth to first centuries bc for publication and is
alsoworkingonthepublicationoftheArchaeologicalSocietyofAthens’excavationsin
thecemeteriesofDemetriasandPharsalos.Sheisco-editor(withMarinaYeroulanou)
of Excavating Classical Culture: Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Greece (2002) and
ArtandArchaeologyintheCyclades(2005).
RosalindThomasisFellowandTutorinAncientHistoryatBalliolCollege,Oxford.
She is the author of Oral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens (1989),
Literacy and Orality in Ancient Greece (1992), and Herodotus in Context: Ethnography,
ScienceandtheArtofPersuasion(2000).
list of illustrations
TheMediterraneanWorldofPindar xv
1. GravekourosofAristodikos.Athens,NM3938.Photo:Museum 85
2. RiaceB.Bronzestatue.ReggioCalabria,MuseoNazionale.Photo:Hirmer 85
3. FoundryCup.Berlin,Staatlichemuseen2294.AfterFu¨rtwanglerand
Reichhold(1904–32)pl.135 93
4. Olympia.PlanofAltis.AfterCurtiusandAdler(1882)pl.iii 96
5. Olympia.ModelofAltis,viewfromsouth-west.AfterAshmoleandYalouris
(1967)fig.6 96
6. InscribedbaseforstatueofKyniskosofMantinea.AfterIvO149 98
7. InscribedbaseforstatueofPythoklesofElis.AfterIvO162–3 98
8. BronzestatuefragmentsfromOlympia.Photo:DAIAthen,Neg.72/3595
(G.Hellner) 104
9. BronzestatuefragmentfromOlympia.Photo:DAIAthen,Neg.74/1123
(G.Hellner) 104
10. Bronze statue fragment from Olympia. Photo: DAIAthen, Neg.
Olympia 941 (H. Wagner) 104
11. BronzestatuefragmentfromOlympia.Photo:DAIAthen,Neg.72/3607
(G.Hellner) 104
12. Marbletorsofromathleticstatue.DelosMuseumA4277.Photo:E´cole
franc¸aised’Athe`nes,Neg.inv.46691(P.Collet) 106
13. Marbletorsofromathleticstatue.DelosMuseumA4275.Photo:E´cole
franc¸aised’Athe`nes,Neg.inv.46690(P.Collet) 106
14. Pubisfragmentfromlargekouros.SamosP143.Photo:DAIAthen,Neg.
1984/615(G.Hellner) 113
15. Torsofragmentfromyouthfulmalestatue.Athens,AcropolisMuseum6478.
Photo:DAIAthen,Neg.1975/543 113
16. Pubichairstyling,sixthandearlyfifthcentury.Drawing:R.R.R.Smith 114
17. Athletewithrighthandraisedinprayer.Artmarket,Smyrna.NewYork,
MetropolitanMuseumofArt,RogersFund,1908(08.258.10).Photo:
Museum,Neg.152615B 117
18. Athletepouringlibation.Syracuse,MuseoNazionaleArcheologico31888.
Photo:Hirmer,Archive601.3159 117
19. AmelungAthlete.Universita`diRoma‘LaSapienza’,Museodell’ArteClassica,
Gipsoteca,269.Photo:ICCD80105,courtesyMarcelloBarbanera 119
20. Hoplitodromos.Athenianred-figuredamphora,attributedtothe‘Berlin
Painter’.Paris,LouvreG214.AfterHauser(1887)p.100 119