Emma Aston
Biographic Data
| ID | 3875122 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Aston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Aston |
| SIGNATURE | ASTON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Blessed Thessaly
Labor III
The Cerynean Hind serves to cast Heracles as a problematic hero. It is delicate and beautiful, and defeating it constitutes no great act of force or valor (though it does require fleetness of foot). Moreover, it is sacred to Artemis, and its capture therefore constitutes a serious religious transgression. This chapter examines the exploitation of this problematic quality in literature (such as Pindar) and art, and also discusses the localizations…
Labor VI
This chapter surveys the literary and visual treatments of Heracles’ encounter with the Stymphalian Birds. While some ancient accounts make the birds dangerous adversaries, in most they are merely pests that infest Stymphalus, hampering agriculture; this Labor is therefore less about the vanquishing of a mighty animal foe and more about the clearing of land for cultivation. It is argued that the Labor is part of a complex of local Arcadian myth i…
Battlefield and Racetrack
The Thessalians were famous in antiquity for their wealth and their horsemanship, and this might lead us to assume that Thessalians would feature strongly among recorded victors in pan-Hellenic equestrian competitions. However, such is not in fact the case: Thessalian participation is significantly outstripped by that of Athenians, Spartans and competitors from Magna Graecia, and there is an especially slight Thessalian presence among chariot vic…
Centaurs and Lapiths in the Landscape of Thessaly
Lapiths and Centaurs are famous figures of Greek myth in both its literary and its artistic representation. However, what is rarely discussed is the localization of their conflict in the landscapes of Thessaly, in northern Greece. This chapter restores the Thessalian dimension, in two ways: first, by examining the landscape of Thessaly as a setting, and second, by reconstructing the involvement of certain of the region’s communities in the format…
Friends in High Places
It is over seventy years since Francois Ollier published his important work on the “mirage spartiate,” in which he drew attention to the elements of idealisation in such works as Xenophon’s Constitution of the Spartans, and to the hazards of their use as evidence for the realities of life in ancient Sparta. Since then, of course, major studies have been undertaken into the conception of identity in Greek culture, shining particular light onto how…
Mixanthrôpoi
Many of the beings in this book – Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others – will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as recipients of cult and as members of the ancient pantheon. This book is the first major treatment of the use of part-animal – mixanthropic – form in the representation and visual imagi…
The Absence of Chiron
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Asclepius and the legacy of Thessaly
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Asclepius and the legacy of Thessaly
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Battlefield and Racetrack
The Thessalians were famous in antiquity for their wealth and their horsemanship, and this might lead us to assume that Thessalians would feature strongly among recorded victors in pan-Hellenic equestrian competitions. However, such is not in fact the case: Thessalian participation is significantly outstripped by that of Athenians, Spartans and competitors from Magna Graecia, and there is an especially slight Thessalian presence among chariot vic…
The Absence of Chiron
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Asclepius and the legacy of Thessaly
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The Absence of Chiron
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Mixanthrôpoi
Many of the beings in this book – Cheiron, Pan, Acheloos, the Sirens and others – will be familiar from the narratives of Greek mythology, in which fabulous anatomies abound. However, they have never previously been studied together from a religious perspective, as recipients of cult and as members of the ancient pantheon. This book is the first major treatment of the use of part-animal – mixanthropic – form in the representation and visual imagi…
Friends in High Places
It is over seventy years since Francois Ollier published his important work on the “mirage spartiate,” in which he drew attention to the elements of idealisation in such works as Xenophon’s Constitution of the Spartans, and to the hazards of their use as evidence for the realities of life in ancient Sparta. Since then, of course, major studies have been undertaken into the conception of identity in Greek culture, shining particular light onto how…
Centaurs and Lapiths in the Landscape of Thessaly
Lapiths and Centaurs are famous figures of Greek myth in both its literary and its artistic representation. However, what is rarely discussed is the localization of their conflict in the landscapes of Thessaly, in northern Greece. This chapter restores the Thessalian dimension, in two ways: first, by examining the landscape of Thessaly as a setting, and second, by reconstructing the involvement of certain of the region’s communities in the format…
Battlefield and Racetrack
The Thessalians were famous in antiquity for their wealth and their horsemanship, and this might lead us to assume that Thessalians would feature strongly among recorded victors in pan-Hellenic equestrian competitions. However, such is not in fact the case: Thessalian participation is significantly outstripped by that of Athenians, Spartans and competitors from Magna Graecia, and there is an especially slight Thessalian presence among chariot vic…
Labor III
The Cerynean Hind serves to cast Heracles as a problematic hero. It is delicate and beautiful, and defeating it constitutes no great act of force or valor (though it does require fleetness of foot). Moreover, it is sacred to Artemis, and its capture therefore constitutes a serious religious transgression. This chapter examines the exploitation of this problematic quality in literature (such as Pindar) and art, and also discusses the localizations…
Labor VI
This chapter surveys the literary and visual treatments of Heracles’ encounter with the Stymphalian Birds. While some ancient accounts make the birds dangerous adversaries, in most they are merely pests that infest Stymphalus, hampering agriculture; this Labor is therefore less about the vanquishing of a mighty animal foe and more about the clearing of land for cultivation. It is argued that the Labor is part of a complex of local Arcadian myth i…
Blessed Thessaly
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