Epinician choregia: funding a Pindaric chorus

Currie, Bruno; Athanassaki, Lucia; Bowie, Ewen

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“…Once again, therefore, the 72 Only epinician premières are at issue here; on epinician reperformances, see below, § 6. 73 On N. 10.22-23, see Currie 2011, 270-271. On I.…”

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Intertextuality in Early Greek Poetry: The Special Case of Epinician

Currie

2021

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This paper offers a reappraisal of the role of intertextuality in fifth-century BCE epinician poetry by means of a comparison with the role of intertextuality in all of early Greek hexameter poetry, ‘lyric epic’, and fifth-century BCE tragedy and comedy. By considering the ways in which performance culture as well as the production of written texts affects the prospects for intertextuality, it challenges a scholarly view that would straightforwardly correlate intertextuality in early Greek poetry with an increasing use and dissemination of written texts. Rather, ‘performance rivalry’ (a term understood to encompass both intra- and intergeneric competition between poetic works that were performed either on the same occasion or on closely related occasions) is identified as a plausible catalyst of intertextuality in all of the poetic genres considered, from the eighth or seventh century to the fifth century BCE. It is argued that fifth-century epinician poetry displays frequent, fine-grained, and allusive intertextuality with a range of early hexameter poetry: the Iliad, the poems of the Epic Cycle, and various ‘Hesiodic’ poems – poetry that in all probability featured in the sixth-fifth century BCE rhapsodic repertoire. It is also argued that, contrary to what is maintained in some recent Pindaric scholarship, there is no comparable case to be made for a frequent, significant, and allusive intrageneric intertextuality between epinician poems: in this respect, the case of epinician makes a very striking contrast with epic, tragedy, and comedy – poetic genres to which intrageneric intertextuality was absolutely fundamental. It is suggested that the presence or absence of intrageneric intertextuality in the genres in question is likely to be associated with the presence or absence of performance rivalry. A further factor identified as having the potential to inhibit intrageneric intertextuality in epinician is the undesirability of having one poem appear to be ‘bettered’ by another in a genre were all poems were commissioned to exalt individual patrons. This, again, is a situation that did not arise for epic, tragedy, or comedy, where a kind of competitive or ‘zero-sum’ intertextuality could be (and was) unproblematically embraced. Intertextuality in epinician thus appears to present a special case vis-à-vis the other major poetic genres of early Greece, whose workings can both be illuminated by consideration of the workings of intertextuality in epic, tragedy, and comedy, and can in turn illuminate something of the workings of intertextuality in those genres.

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“…Once again, therefore, the 72 Only epinician premières are at issue here; on epinician reperformances, see below, § 6. 73 On N. 10.22-23, see Currie 2011, 270-271. On I.…”

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Intertextuality in Early Greek Poetry: The Special Case of Epinician

Currie

2021

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“…Currie : 287 n. 75. Cairns : 67–68 suggests that what is celebrated in the ode may only be a betrothal, which would place the marriage sometime in the future.…”

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“…For the compelling suggestion that future games served as occasions for the reperformance of odes, see Hubbard : 71–80; Currie : 60 and : 301–308.…”

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“…Verdenius (: 86) complains that to understand Callianax as coming from another family creates a lack of smooth connection with the following lines about the Eratidae, but as Cairns (2007: 66–67) points out, the lines can run smoothly on this understanding. Moreover, it is worth considering the possibility suggested by Currie (: 286–88) that the Eratidae are, in fact, Callianax's family, not Diagoras's, and that the ode is a gift from the Eratidae to Diagoras and his family. As Currie points out, the Diagoridae are nowhere else referred to as the Eratidae, and, given his name, Callianax was presumably also from a ruling family (Pouilloux : 210).…”

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When Athletic Victory and Fatherhood Did Mix: The Commemoration of Diagoras of Rhodes

Nicholson

2018

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies

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The fame of the great boxer Diagoras of Rhodes was intimately, and uniquely, bound up with the fame of his children: for no other classical or archaic victor were his children so central to his own commemoration. This paper will explore that centrality, showing the extent to which Diagoras’ portrayal across all media — not only in epinician and sculptural dedications, but also in the oral tradition — was unique in emphasizing his status as a father, and seek to explain the choice. I will argue that the portrayal of Diagoras as a father, subject to the normal biological rhythms of life, signified a particular type of politics that favored networking and connections between cities, promoting, in particular, the synoecism of Rhodes’ three cities.

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Gift‐Giving and Power Relationships in Greek Social Praxis and Public Discourse

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2013

The Gift in Antiquity

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Epinician choregia: funding a Pindaric chorus

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Intertextuality in Early Greek Poetry: The Special Case of Epinician

Intertextuality in Early Greek Poetry: The Special Case of Epinician

When Athletic Victory and Fatherhood Did Mix: The Commemoration of Diagoras of Rhodes

Gift‐Giving and Power Relationships in Greek Social Praxis and Public Discourse

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