Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar's Sicilian Odes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9313699 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Virginia M Lewis (0000-0003-1964-9128, Assistant Professor of Classics, Florida State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Pages | 304 |
| Publication date | 2019-09-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar's Sicilian Odes (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780190910310.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2973749741 |
| Open Library | OL29450870M |
| ISBN | 9780190910310 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 135 |
Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar’s Sicilian Odes argues that Pindar engages in a striking, innovative style of mythmaking that represents and shapes Sicilian identities in his epinician odes for Sicilian victors in the fifth century bce. While Sicily has been thought to be lacking in local traditions for Pindar to celebrate, this book argues that the Sicilian odes offer examples of the formation of local traditions: the monster Typho whom Zeus defeated to become king of the gods, for example, now lives beneath Mt. Aitna; Persephone receives the island of Sicily as a gift from Zeus; and the Peloponnesian river Alpheos travels to Syracuse in pursuit of the local spring nymph Arethusa. By weaving regional and Panhellenic myth into the local landscape, as the book shows, Pindar infuses physical places with meaning and thereby contextualizes people, cities, and their rulers within a wider Greek framework. During this time period, Greek Sicily experienced a unique set of political circumstances: the inhabitants were continuously being displaced, cities were founded and resettled, and political leaders rose and fell from power in rapid succession. This book offers the first sustained analysis of myth in Pindar’s odes for Sicilian victors across the island that accounts for their shared cultural contexts
Aesthetics · Art · Identity (music · Linguistics · Literature · Locality · Mythology · Ode · Sicilian · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical and Literary Analyses · Philosophy · civilization · Classical philology · Criticism and interpretation · Greek Mythology · Greek Odes · History and criticism
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Ritual
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |