The World of Ion of Chios (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Brill (NL) |
| ISBN-13 | 9789004160453 |
| Open Library | OL19821944W |
| Total publications | 11 |
| Coverage period | 2007 - 2007 |
| Language | EN |
Sixteen international contributors investigate the life, works and reception of Ion of Chios (490/80-420s BC), the prolific Greek writer famed in antiquity for his polyeideia. His extraordinary range of writings in prose and poetry across multiple genres include tragedy, elegy, history, biography, mythography and philosophy. Ion is important to any study of Classical Greece because of the literary innovations which he pioneered. He is significant to the history of Athens and Chios as a contemporary of and commentator on Aeschylus, Cimon, Sophocles, Pericles, Themistocles and Socrates. This book is the first to examine how this fascinating but neglected man interacted with his peers and conceptualized himself and his world during one of the most exciting periods of ancient history.
The World of Ion of Chios
Sixteen international contributors investigate the life, works and reception of Ion of Chios (490/80-420s BC), the prolific Greek writer famed in antiquity for his polyeideia. His extraordinary range of writings in prose and poetry across multiple genres include tragedy, elegy, history, biography, mythography and philosophy. Ion is important to any study of Classical Greece because of the literary innovations which he pioneered. He is significant…
Chapter One. Introduction
World of Ion of Chios
The World of Ion of Chios (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
Chapter Six. Ion of Chios and politics
This chapter concerns with three of the many bits and pieces of writing of Ion of Chios. When Plutarch came to write the Life of Cimon , he found a story in the works of Ion, who, at the age of about eighteen in c.466, heard Cimon himself tell it at a dinner in Athens. Athenaeus, in a section which discusses the love of boys, reproduces a passage of Ion's work Epidemiai in which he reports some of the conversation of Sophocles. In addition to the…
Chapter Thirteen. Ion of Chios, Sophocles, and Myth
Ion may have enhanced his own reputation simply by virtue of composing his Epidemiai . In his memoir, as cited by Athenaeus, Ion describes a merry evening spent with Sophocles. Sophocles lived long and was fully active as soldier and citizen; the biographical tradition, ever a creative genre, invests him with a striking and complex personality. Ion may not have lived so long or made such an impact in public life, but his talent and activities are…
Chapter Twelve. Ion of Chios
A recent focus of scholarly attention has been how far the tragedy had spread its wings through Greece already during the fifth century. Against this scholarly backdrop, the tragic success of Ion of Chios on the Athenian stage provides an opportunity to sound out these interpretative frameworks in a very specific way. A general dependence upon epic narrative as a source is evident from the scattered surviving titles of Ion's plays. In schematic t…
Chapter Seven. Ion the Wineman
This chapter examines Ion's mythological writing. This casts light on the nature of the genre, Ion's place in Greek literary tradition and on his own social and political allegiances. The chapter provides an outline of Ion's method of allusion and explicates the manipulations of meaning witnessed in his work. Chios' position as second-ranked power did not stop her citizens from thinking big. One particularly interesting thread is the view it pres…
Chapter Fourteen. Looking for Omphale
Omphale is well attested as a play by Ion, and specifically identified as a satyr play in 23 Leurini = TrGF 19 F18 = Strabo 1.3.19: Strabo, in a passage on offshore islands, cites Ion in the satyr play Omphale for a reference to Euboea and the Euripus. In Diodorus and Apollodorus, Omphale is daughter of King Iardanus of Lydia; Diodorus makes her a virgin queen, but in Apollodorus she is the widow of king Tmolus. The story of her union with Heracl…
Chapter Seventeen. Ion’s hymn to Kairos
Ion of Chios wrote a hymn to Kairos. Nothing survives but this 'title', attested six hundred years on by the periegete Pausanias. The antiquarian-oriented poet Antimachus named one of Adrastus' horses a fragment suggests that Menander made kairos a god. Kairos is commonly translated as opportunity. This is a later sense; indeed, kairos eventually becomes synonymous with chronos or time, and, as such, it is understandable why it is often associate…
Chapter Eight. Trapped between Athens and Chios
Articles proclaiming the mimetic power of literature have proliferated in recent decades. It is an approach that can unite even those who might otherwise disagree violently on methodology. This chapter shows how such an approach might be useful for thinking about the work of Ion of Chios. It examines the methods by which Ion is able to establish a way of being. Ion exists at the beginning of history in two senses. First, he belongs to the generat…
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The World of Ion of Chios
Sixteen international contributors investigate the life, works and reception of Ion of Chios (490/80-420s BC), the prolific Greek writer famed in antiquity for his polyeideia. His extraordinary range of writings in prose and poetry across multiple genres include tragedy, elegy, history, biography, mythography and philosophy. Ion is important to any study of Classical Greece because of the literary innovations which he pioneered. He is significant…
Chapter One. Introduction
World of Ion of Chios
The World of Ion of Chios (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)
Chapter Six. Ion of Chios and politics
This chapter concerns with three of the many bits and pieces of writing of Ion of Chios. When Plutarch came to write the Life of Cimon , he found a story in the works of Ion, who, at the age of about eighteen in c.466, heard Cimon himself tell it at a dinner in Athens. Athenaeus, in a section which discusses the love of boys, reproduces a passage of Ion's work Epidemiai in which he reports some of the conversation of Sophocles. In addition to the…
Chapter Thirteen. Ion of Chios, Sophocles, and Myth
Ion may have enhanced his own reputation simply by virtue of composing his Epidemiai . In his memoir, as cited by Athenaeus, Ion describes a merry evening spent with Sophocles. Sophocles lived long and was fully active as soldier and citizen; the biographical tradition, ever a creative genre, invests him with a striking and complex personality. Ion may not have lived so long or made such an impact in public life, but his talent and activities are…
Chapter Twelve. Ion of Chios
A recent focus of scholarly attention has been how far the tragedy had spread its wings through Greece already during the fifth century. Against this scholarly backdrop, the tragic success of Ion of Chios on the Athenian stage provides an opportunity to sound out these interpretative frameworks in a very specific way. A general dependence upon epic narrative as a source is evident from the scattered surviving titles of Ion's plays. In schematic t…
Chapter Seven. Ion the Wineman
This chapter examines Ion's mythological writing. This casts light on the nature of the genre, Ion's place in Greek literary tradition and on his own social and political allegiances. The chapter provides an outline of Ion's method of allusion and explicates the manipulations of meaning witnessed in his work. Chios' position as second-ranked power did not stop her citizens from thinking big. One particularly interesting thread is the view it pres…
Chapter Fourteen. Looking for Omphale
Omphale is well attested as a play by Ion, and specifically identified as a satyr play in 23 Leurini = TrGF 19 F18 = Strabo 1.3.19: Strabo, in a passage on offshore islands, cites Ion in the satyr play Omphale for a reference to Euboea and the Euripus. In Diodorus and Apollodorus, Omphale is daughter of King Iardanus of Lydia; Diodorus makes her a virgin queen, but in Apollodorus she is the widow of king Tmolus. The story of her union with Heracl…
Chapter Seventeen. Ion’s hymn to Kairos
Ion of Chios wrote a hymn to Kairos. Nothing survives but this 'title', attested six hundred years on by the periegete Pausanias. The antiquarian-oriented poet Antimachus named one of Adrastus' horses a fragment suggests that Menander made kairos a god. Kairos is commonly translated as opportunity. This is a later sense; indeed, kairos eventually becomes synonymous with chronos or time, and, as such, it is understandable why it is often associate…
Chapter Eight. Trapped between Athens and Chios
Articles proclaiming the mimetic power of literature have proliferated in recent decades. It is an approach that can unite even those who might otherwise disagree violently on methodology. This chapter shows how such an approach might be useful for thinking about the work of Ion of Chios. It examines the methods by which Ion is able to establish a way of being. Ion exists at the beginning of history in two senses. First, he belongs to the generat…