The ‘Spatial Dynamics’ of Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram: Conversations among Locations, Monuments, Texts, and Viewer-Readers

Day, Joseph W.

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“…28 Day (2018) 99. 29 wιλότιμος is not necessarily an admirable attribute, but it does indicate some agency on Kyniska's part.…”

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Creating and Contesting Kyniska: The Reception of the First Female Olympic Victor

Carrara

2023

Antichthon

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This article examines the historical creation of the legacy of Kyniska, the Spartan royal who was the first woman to win at the ancient Olympics in the early fourth century BCE, from her own lifetime to the modern era. By investigating the reception of her victory rather than her agency as historical actor, I demonstrate that the continuing relevance of her victory has depended on others’ literary, historical, or political goals. I examine the creation and contestation of Kyniska's victory at five key moments of reception: 1) in the narratives of Xenophon, Plutarch, and Pausanias; 2) in her own victory monument; 3) in poetry commemorating Hellenistic rulers; 4) in feminist didactic biography of the nineteenth century; and 5) in the debates surrounding the modern Olympics. These moments reveal how her victory's reception has contributed to ancient and modern discourses on womanhood and gender. By contextualising Kyniska in each of these distinct eras and environments, I suggest that the perception of her victory has never been monolithic, not even in the ancient world.

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“…28 Day (2018) 99. 29 wιλότιμος is not necessarily an admirable attribute, but it does indicate some agency on Kyniska's part.…”

Section: The Epigraphic Kyniskamentioning

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Creating and Contesting Kyniska: The Reception of the First Female Olympic Victor

Carrara

2023

Antichthon

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“…On the basis of their 'egocentrism', he argued that 'Greek writing was first and foremost a machine for producing sounds.' 42 Bakker has well criticized this view, observing that such inscriptions are not 'egocentric' but 'reader-oriented', that rather than engaging in monologue they are in fact involved in dialogue, answering questions which are frequently-but not always-implicit, as in the following fifth-century inscription (CEG 286): 43 πᾶσιν ἴσ᾽ ἀνθρόποις hυποκρίνομαι hόστις ἐ[ροτ]ᾶι hός μ᾽ ἀνέθεκ᾽ ἀνδρο ν· ᾿Aντιφάνες δεκάτεν To all people I answer the same, whoever asks which man dedicated me: Antiphanes, as a tithe.…”

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Speaking Objects and the Early Greek Conception of Writing

Fassberg

2023

The Class. Q.

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One of the most remarkable features of the language of early Greek writing is a pervasive rhetorical strategy which consists in personifying objects for the purpose of identifying humans closely associated with them. Such ‘speaking objects’ have no Semitic parallel; how, then, is their conventional status in the Archaic Age to be explained? This article first considers the formulaic language of speaking objects, which is no straightforward transcription of speech, and seeks to explain where it comes from. It then turns to the question of why writers employed the curious strategy of personification by setting it in the broader context of early Greek writing and literature. Variously analogous to herms, slaves and skytalai, speaking objects are shown to have been conceived as messengers acting on behalf of their senders by not speaking in their name.

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Newby

2023

The Material Dynamics of Festivals in the Graeco-Roman East

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Much of our knowledge of festivals from the ancient world comes from material culture, especially inscriptions, which detail the running of festivals, or the victories achieved by individual performers. Civic coinage and architectural decoration also sometimes advertised festivals and religious traditions, while festival activities were framed by the spaces and periods in which they took place. This introduction sets out the ways in which such material has been studied in recent years, drawing attention to scholarship on the epigraphic habit, the materiality of art and text, and the spatial turn. It sets out the wider frameworks within which the individual chapters are set, asserting the importance of considering individual pieces of material evidence as the result of deliberate choices of what to record, and where and how to record it. It also indicates the social frameworks within which civic festivals proceeded, outlining the important roles played by emperors, elites, and cities.

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The ‘Spatial Dynamics’ of Archaic and Classical Greek Epigram: Conversations among Locations, Monuments, Texts, and Viewer-Readers

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Creating and Contesting Kyniska: The Reception of the First Female Olympic Victor

Creating and Contesting Kyniska: The Reception of the First Female Olympic Victor

Speaking Objects and the Early Greek Conception of Writing

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