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The poetics of victory in the Greek West : epinician, oral tradition, and the Deinomenid empire /

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"The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or 'hero-athlete narratives,' that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on the colorful stories t...

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Main Author: Nicholson, Nigel James (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Series:Greeks overseas.
Subjects:
Odes, Greek > History and criticism.
Narrative poetry, Greek > History and criticism.
Athletes in literature.
Heroes in literature.
Oral tradition > Italy > Sicily > History > To 1500.
Oral tradition > Italy, Southern > History > To 1500.
Athletics > Political aspects > Italy > Sicily > History > To 1500.
Athletics > Political aspects > Italy, Southern > History > To 1500.
Syracuse (Italy) > Kings and rulers > History.
Sicily (Italy) > History > To 800.
HISTORY / Ancient / Greece.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical.
Table of Contents:
  • The Hero-Athlete Narrative
  • Epinician and the Hero-Athlete Narrative
  • Politics and Athlopolitics in Sicily and Southern Italy
  • Epizephyrian Locri : Hagesidamus and Euthymus
  • Croton : Astylus and Philippus
  • Sicily under Gelon : The Two Glaucuses
  • Sicily under and after Hieron : Ergoteles of Himera and Tisander of Naxos
  • Beyond the Deinomenids : Alexidamus of Metapontum.