Poetics of Victory in the Greek West: Epinician, Oral Tradition, and the Deinomenid Empire

by Nigel Nicholson

The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives," that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on the colorful stories told about athletes in later sources, the fragments of Simonides, and the surviving odes of Pindar and Bacchylides, it argues that epinician was formed in opposition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190209097
• ISBN13: 9780190209094
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"