Eris vs. Aemulatio: Valuing Competition in Classical Antiquity

384 Pages·2018·2.1 MB·English

by  Cynthia Damon, Christoph Pieper

Erisvs.Aemulatio
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Eris vs. Aemulatio
ValuingCompetitioninClassicalAntiquity
Editedby
CynthiaDamon
ChristophPieper
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Contents
Figures vii
NotesonContributors viii
1 Introduction 1
CynthiaDamonandChristophPieper
Part 1
ErisReimagined
2 HesiodicErisandtheMarket 29
RuthScodel
Part 2
Ambivalence,Critique,Resistance
3 AgonisticExcessandItsRitualResolutioninHeroCult:theFuneral
GamesinIliad23asamiseenabyme 53
AntonBierl
4 Certarealternocarmine:theRiseandFallofBucolicCompetition 78
YelenaBaraz
5 Stasis,Competition,andthe‘NobleLie’:MeticMettleinPlato’s
Republic 98
GeoffreyW.Bakewell
6 CompetitionandInnovationinAristotle,Politics2 120
IngerN.I.Kuin
7 Aristotle’sPoeticsandskênikoiagônes 141
OliverTaplin
8 ParadoxesandAnxietiesofCompetitioninHippocraticMedicine 152
RalphM.Rosen
vi contents
Part 3
Multivalence,Displacement,Innovation
9 SleightsofHand:EpigraphicCappingandtheVisualEnactmentofEris
inEarlyGreekEpigrams 177
DeborahSteiner
10 RomanArchitectsandtheStruggleforFameinanUnequal
Society 208
ChristopherSiwicki
11 PoliticalCompetitionandEconomicChangeinMid-Republican
Rome 230
SethBernard
12 Mihiesaemula:EliteFemaleStatusCompetitioninMid-Republican
RomeandtheExampleofTertiaAemilia 251
LewisWebb
13 ThePoeticsofStrifeandCompetitioninHesiodandOvid 281
CharlesT.Ham
14 DemosthenesversusCicero:InterculturalCompetitioninAncient
LiteraryCriticism 300
CasperC.deJonge
15 CompetitionandCompetitivenessinPollux’sOnomasticon 324
AlexeiV.Zadorojnyi
IndexNominum 343
GeneralIndex 348
IndexLocorum 360
Figures
9.1 Dipylonoinochoe 179
9.2 Corinthianblack-figurekotyle 182
9.3 MiddleCorinthianaryballos 184
9.4 ProtoatticloutrophorosbytheAnalatosPainter 187
9.5 OinochoefromPithekoussai 188
9.6 IGXII3.536 191
9.7 IGXII3.540 194
10.1 NymphaeumatSegni,latesecond/earlyfirstcenturyBCE 213
10.2 MarblerelieffoundatTerracina 218
11.1 RepublicanvillasandvineyardsintheRomansuburbium 243
Notes on Contributors
GeoffreyW.Bakewell
isProfessorofGreekandRomanStudiesatRhodesCollege,wherehealsoholds
theIreneB.andJ.WalterMcDonnellChairinGreekandRomanStudies.
YelenaBaraz
is Associate Professor of Classics and Behrman Professor in the Humanities
CouncilatPrincetonUniversity.
SethBernard
isAssistantProfessorintheDepartmentofClassicsattheUniversityofToronto.
AntonBierl
istheProfessorofGreekintheDepartmentofAltertumswissenschaftenatBasel
University.
CynthiaDamon
isProfessorofClassicalStudiesattheUniversityofPennsylvania.
CharlesT.Ham
isAssistantProfessorintheDepartmentofClassicsatGrandValleyStateUni-
versity.
CasperC.deJonge
isUniversityLecturerofAncientGreekLanguageandLiteratureatLeidenUni-
versity.
IngerN.I.Kuin
isSeniorLecturerofClassicsatDartmouthCollege.
ChristophPieper
isUniversityLecturerofLatinLanguageandLiteratureatLeidenUniversity.
RalphM.Rosen
isVartanGregorianProfessoroftheHumanitiesandProfessorofClassicalStud-
iesattheUniversityofPennsylvania.
notes on contributors ix
RuthScodel
isD.R.Shackleton-BaileyCollegiateProfessorofGreekandLatinintheDepart-
mentofClassicalStudiesattheUniversityofMichigan.
ChristopherSiwicki
isRomeFellow,BritishSchoolatRome.
DeborahSteiner
is John Jay Professor of Greek and Latin in the Department of Classics at
ColumbiaUniversity.
OliverTaplin
isEmeritusFellowatMagdalenCollegeintheUniversityofOxford.
LewisWebb
isaPhDcandidateinAncientHistoryandClassicalArchaeologyintheDepart-
mentofHistoricalStudiesattheUniversityofGothenburg.
AlexeiV.Zadorojnyi
isLecturerintheDepartmentof Archaeology,ClassicsandEgyptologyatthe
UniversityofLiverpool.