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patterson $60.00 history: classics, mythology lee e. patterson also of interest also of interest IN aNcIeNt Greece, interstate relations, such as in the formation of allianc- K Bodily Arts es, calls for assistance, exchanges of citizenship, and territorial conquest, were I Periklean Athens and Its Legacy often grounded in mythical kinship. In these cases, the common ancestor was N Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece Problems and Perspectives most often a legendary figure from whom both communities claimed descent. By Debra Hawhee Edited by Judith M. Barringer and S In this detailed study, Lee E. Patterson elevates the current state of research Jeffrey M. Hurwit H on kinship myth to a consideration of the role it plays in the construction of The role of athletics in ancient Greece extended well political and cultural identity. He draws examples both from the literary and beyond the realms of kinesiology, competition, and I The specially commissioned essays in this volume epigraphical records and shows the fundamental difference between the two. He entertainment. In teaching and philosophy, athletic P offer a fresh, innovative panorama of the art, archi- also expands his study into the question of Greek credulity—how much of these practices overlapped with rhetorical ones and formed tecture, history, culture, and influence of Periklean founding myths did they actually believe, and how much was just a useful fiction a shared mode of knowledge production. Bodily Arts M Athens. Written by leading experts in the field, the for diplomatic relations? Of central importance is the authority the Greeks gave examines this intriguing intersection, offering an articles cover a wide range of topics, including: important context for understanding the attitudes of to myth, whether to elaborate narratives or to a simple acknowledgment of an Y ancestor. Most Greeks could readily accept ties of interstate kinship even when ancient Greeks toward themselves and their environ- T • An evaluation of Perikles’ military leadership local origin narratives could not be reconciled smoothly or when myths used to ment. In classical society, rhetoric was an activity, during the early stages of the Peloponnesian War H explain the link between communities were only “discovered” upon the actual one that was in essence “performed.” Detailing how • Iconographical and iconological studies of vase occasion of diplomacy, because such claims had been given authority in the col- athletics came to be rhetoric’s “twin art” in the bodily paintings, wall paintings, and sculpture lective memory of the Greeks. I aspects of learning and performance, Bodily Arts N • Explorations of the Parthenon and other This study enriches the dialogue on how societies often use myth to construct draws on diverse orators and philosophers such as monuments of the Athenian Akropolis Isocrates, Demosthenes, and Plato, as well as medi- political, social, and cultural identity—hardly unique to the ancient Greeks, it is A • The legacy of Periklean Athens and its influence rather a human phenomenon for a culture to embrace an identity grounded in a cal treatises and a wealth of artifacts from the time, N upon later art putative ancestry that is expressed in the traditional stories of that culture. including statues and vases. • Assessments of the modern reception of the C Akropolis lee e. patterson is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern ISBN 978-0-292-72140-1, paperback KINSHIP I Illinois University, where he teaches Greek, Roman, Near Eastern, As a whole, this collection of essays proves that even E and world history. He has published articles on Strabo, Pausanias, a well-explored field such as Periklean Athens can Alcman, and the Roman Near East. N MYTH yield new treasures when mined by perceptive and seasoned investigators. T university of texas press ISBN 978-0-292-70622-4, hardcover www.utexaspress.com 800.252.3206 G IN ISBN 978-0-292-72275-0 $60.00 R ANCIENT E E C GREECE PrINted IN U.S.a. E university of texas press, austin texas Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Kinship My th in Ancient Greece Lee e. Patterson University of texas Press Austin This book has been supported by an endowment dedicated to classics and the ancient world and funded by the Areté Foundation; the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; the Dougherty Foundation; the James R. Dougherty, Jr. Foundation; the Rachael and Ben Vaughan Foundation; and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Copyright © 2010 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2010 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713- 7819 www.utexas.edu/utpress/about/bpermission.html ♾ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso Z39.48- 1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Patterson, Lee. Kinship myth in ancient Greece / Lee E. Patterson. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isBn 978-0-292-72275-0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Kinship—Greece—History. 2. Mythology, Greek. 3. Civilization, Ancient. 4. Greece—Civilization. 5. Greece—Foreign relations. 6. Greece—Politics and government. I. Title. Gn585.G85P37 2010 938—dc22 2010019016 For my father, Stanley Mac Patterson, and in loving memory of my mother, Vanessa Leigh Patterson THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Contents Abbreviations ix Note on Translations and Transliterations xi Preface and Acknowledgments xiii 1. Kinship and Constructed Identities 1 2. Credulity and Historical Causation 22 3. Kinship Myth in the Literary Sources 45 Alliances and Assistance 4. Kinship Myth in the Literary Sources 69 Conquests and Territorial Possession 5. Alexander the Great 83 6. Epigraphical Evidence of Kinship Diplomacy 109 Paradigmatic Inscriptions 7. Epigraphical Evidence of Kinship Diplomacy 124 Local Myths in Pausanias 8. Conclusions 154 Appendix One. The Historical Context of Plutarch, solon 8–10 165 KinshiP Myth in ancient Greece Appendix Two. Greek Myth and Macedonian Identity 170 Appendix Three. A Tale of Two Phoci 174 Notes 177 Bibliography 221 Index Locorum 235 General Index 247 viii Abbreviations AJA American Journal of Archaeology AJAH American Journal of Ancient History AJP American Journal of Philology AncW Ancient World Bernabé Poetarum Epicorum Graecorum, ed. A. Bernabé CA Classical Antiquity CJ Classical Journal CP Classical Philology CQ Classical Quarterly DK Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, eds. H. Diels and W. Kranz Erbse Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem (scholia vetera), ed. Hartmut Erbse FGrH Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, ed. F. Jacoby G&R Greece and Rome GHI Greek Historical Inscriptions, eds. Meiggs and Lewis GRBS Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies IC Inscriptiones Creticae IG Inscriptiones Graecae I.v. Magnesia Die Inschriften von Magnesia am Maeander, ed. O. Kern I.v. Pergamon Die Inschriften von Pergamon (Altertümer von Pergamon Vol. 8), ed. M. Fränkel I.v. Priene Die Inschriften von Priene, ed. C. Fredrich JCH Journal of Contemporary History JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies JNES Journal of Near Eastern Studies JSemStud Journal of Semitic Studies LIMC Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae
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