Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry: Myth, History, and Identity in the Fifth Century BC

511 Pages·2011·5.299 MB·English

by  David Fearn

Aegina: Contexts for
Choral Lyric Poetry
Myth, History, and Identity in the
Fifth Century bc
Edited by
DAVID FEARN
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Acknowledgements
The seminar series out of which this volume has grown was devised
and held under the auspices of the Centre for Greek and Roman
Antiquity, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in autumn 2006, and
I would like to thank the Senior Members of the Centre, and Ewen
Bowie and Jas Eisner in particular, for their assistance and support
throughout; I also owe the college a large debt of thanks for allowing
me the opportunity as a Junior Research Fellow to further my interest
in all things Aeginetan, both in Oxford and through support of my
travels in Greece. Thanks also to the Faculty of Classics and Jesus
College, Oxford, and latterly the Department of Classics and Ancient
History at Warwick, for allowing me the time and space to continue
research amid pleasant surroundings.
Very special thanks to all the individual contributors to the sem­
inar series for making it, and the present volume, possible. I should
also like to thank Guy Hedreen and Elizabeth Irwin for their enthu­
siastic response to the idea of this volume, and their willingness to
offer additional contributions, thus helping to further emphasize
the need to think about Aegina in as broad a range of contexts and
through as broad a variety of media as possible. Hilary O’Shea,
Dorothy McCarthy, and Tessa Eaton at OUP guided the production
of this volume expertly from its original conception through to
completion. Final deepest thanks to my wife Kathleen, and to my
son Laurence.

Contents
List of Contributors ix
Illustrations xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: Aegina in Contexts 1
David Fearn
I. CONTEXTS FOR HEROIC MYTH-MAKING:
ETHNICITY, INTER-STATE RELATIONS,
CULT, AND COMMERCE
1. Asopos and his Multiple Daughters: Traces of
Preclassical Epic in the Aeginetan Odes of Pindar 41
Gregory Nagy
2. Rethinking the Sanctuary of Aphaia 79
James Watson
3. ‘The Theärion of the Pythian One’: The Aeginetan
Theâroi in Context 114
Ian Rutherford
4. Musical Merchandise ‘on every vessel’: Religion and
Trade on Aegina 129
Barbara Kowalzig
II. POETRY, PERFORMANCE, POLITICS
5. Aeginetan Epinician Culture: Naming, Ritual, and
Politics 175
David Fearn
6. Aeginetan Odes, Reperformance, and Pindaric Intertextuality 227
Andrew Morrison
Contents
III. INTERFACES BETWEEN POETRY,
MYTH, AND ART
7. Giving Wings to the Aeginetan Sculptures: The
Panhellenic Aspirations of Pindar’s Eighth Olympian 257
Lucia Athanassaki
8. Thebes, Aegina, and the Temple of Aphaia:
A Reading of Pindar’s Isthmian 6 294
Henrik Indergaard
9. The Trojan War, Theoxenia, and Aegina in
Pindar’s Paean 6 and the Aphaia Sculptures 323
Guy Hedreen
IV. THE HISTORIOGRAPHICAL AFTERMATH
10. Herodotus on Aeginetan Identity 373
Elizabeth Irwin
11. ‘Lest the things done by men become exit eld:
Writing up Aegina in a Late Fifth-Century Context 426
Elizabeth Irwin
Bibliography 458
Index of Passages Cited 487
General Index 505
List of Contributors
Lucia Athanassaki is Associate Professor of Classical Philology at
the University of Crete. She is the author of numerous articles on
archaic and early classical poetry. Her recent publications include
Apolline Politics and Poetics (2009), which she co-edited with R. P.
Martin and J. F. Miller, and άείδετο παν τέμενος: Οι χορικές
παραστάσεις και το κοινό τους στην αρχαϊκή και πρώιμη κλασική
περίοδο (2009). Among her current projects are a volume of collected
essays on choral song, which she is co-editing with Ewen Bowie, and
a book-length study of Euripides’ Ion.
David Fearn is Assistant Professor in Greek Literature at the Uni­
versity of Warwick. He is the author of Bacchylides: Politics, Perfor­
mance, Poetic Tradition (2007), and a number of other contextual
studies of Greek lyric poetry, including ‘Mapping Phleious: Politics
and Myth-Making in Bacchylides 9’ (2003), and Oligarchic Hestia:
Bacchylides 14B and Pindar, Nemean 11’ (2009).
Guy Hedreen is Professor of Art, Wilhams College. He writes on
Athenian vase-painting, Dionysiae myth and ritual, visual narration,
and the Trojan War. His publications include Capturing Troy: The
Narrative Functions of Landscape in Archaic and Early Classical Greek
Art (2001), and ‘The Semantics of Processional Dithyramb: Pindar’s
Second Dithyramb and Archaic Athenian Vase-Painting’, in Dithyr­
amb and Society: Texts and Contexts in a Changing Choral World,
edited by Barbara Kowalzig and Peter Wilson (forthcoming).
Henrik Indergaard obtained his Candidatus magisteri from the
Universities of Trondheim and Bergen in Norway, and is currently
writing a doctoral dissertation at Exeter College, Oxford, about the
role of Herakles in Pindar’s poetry.
Elizabeth Irwin is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University,
and writes on the intersection of politics and literature in the archaic
and classical periods. Among her publications are Solon and Early
Greek Poetry: The Politics of Exhortation (2005), co-edited with Emily
Greenwood, Reading Herodotus: The Logoi of Book V (2007), and
Contributors
several articles on archaic poetry and Greek historiography. She is
currently writing a book on Herodotus book 3.
Barbara Kowalzjg is Lecturer in Greek History at Royal Holloway,
University of London, and an Associate of the Centre Louis Gernet in
Paris. Her research focuses on religion, music, and performance, and
cultural and economic anthropology in ancient Greece. She is the
author of Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in
Archaic and Classical Greece (Oxford, 2007), and has published
widely on Greek song-culture. She is currently working on a new
project on the relation between religion and trade in the ancient
Mediterranean.
A. D. Morrison is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of
Manchester. He is the author of The Narrator in Archaic Greek and
Hellenistic Poetry (2007) and Performances and Audiences in Pindar’s
Sicilian Victory Odes (2007). He is now working on a book about the
Hellenistic poets’ use of Herodotus.
Gregory Nagy is the Francis Jones Professor of Classical Greek
Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard Uni­
versity, and Director of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in
Washington, DC. He is the author of over a dozen books, including
The Best of the Achaeans: Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry
(1979), Pindar’s Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past (1990),
and, most recently, Homer’s Text and Language (2004), Homer the
Classic (2009), and Homer the Preclassic (2010).
Ian Rutherford is Professor of Greek at the University of Reading.
He is author of Pindar’s Paeans (2001), and his forthcoming books
include Theoria: State Pilgrimage in Greece and Hittite Texts and the
Origins of Greek Religion: Gods, Myths, and Rituals at the Aegeo-
Anatolian Interface.
James Watson received his Ph.D from Cambridge University in
2009 for a thesis entitled ‘From Archaic to Classical: Reassessing
Greek History, 525-450 bc’. He now teaches Classics at The Perse
School, Cambridge. He has a particular interest in the history and
archaeology of Athens and Aegina.
Illustrations
All photographs are by David Fearn unless otherwise stated. Since some of
the illustrations are referred to by more than one contributor, for ease of
reference all are placed at the end of the introduction.
Fig. 1. Ground plans of the Temple of Aphaia. Taken from
Birgitta Bergquist, The Archaic Greek Temenos: A Study
of Structure and Function, Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni
SueciaeA, XIII (Lund, 1967), courtesy of the Swedish
Institutes of Rome and Athens. 29
Fig. 2. Reconstruction of the west pediment from the Temple of
Aphaia. Photo after Ohly 2001. 30
Fig. 3. Reconstruction of the east pediment from the Temple of
Aphaia. Photo after Ohly 1976. 30
Fig. 4. Map of the Saronic Gulf. 31
Fig. 5. The Temple of Aphaia overlooking the shipping lanes of
the Saronic Gulf. 32
Fig. 6. The Sanctuary of Zeus Hellänios. 32
Fig. 7. The remains of the Theärion, Kolonna Hill, with Temple
of Apollo behind. 33
Fig. 8. Map of Aegina Town, after Walter (1993), 55, fig. 48, by
kind permission of Deutscher Kunstverlag GmbH. 33
Fig. 9. The Temple of Aphaia as seen from the summit of
Mount Oros. 34
Fig. 10. Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum 80.AE.154, fragmentary
Athenian red-figure cup, Oltos. Gift of Dr R. Almirante.
Photograph courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum,
Malibu, California. 34
Fig. 11. Samos, Archaeological Museum 75 (this fragment now lost),
fragmentary Athenian black-figure hydria, by or near
Kleitias, c.570 bc. Photo after Kreuzer 1998. 35
Abbreviations
Aegina: Contexts for Choral Lyric Poetry: Myth,
History, and Identity in the Fifth Century BC
David Fearn
Print publication date: 2010
Print ISBN-13: 9780199546510
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2011
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546510.001.0001
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ARV J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edn. (Oxford,
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CAH The Cambridge Ancient History
CID Corpus des inscriptions de Delphes (Paris, 1977– )
CIG Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, 4 vols. (Berlin, 1828–77)
(p.xiv) CPCInv M. H. Hansen and T. H. Nielsen, An Inventory of
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