Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-0-472-13342-0
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

In Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus, author Arum Park explores the notoriously difficult ancient Greek poetry of Aeschylus and Pindar and seeks to articulate the complex relationship between them. Although Pindar and Aeschylus were contemporaries, previous scholarship has often treated Pindar and Aeschylus as representatives of contrasting worldviews. Park’s comparative study offers the alternative perspective of understanding them as complements instead. By examining these poets together through the concepts of reciprocity, truth, and gender, this book establishes a relationship between Pindar and Aeschylus that challenges previous conceptions of their dissimilarity. The book accomplishes three aims: first, it establishes that Pindar and Aeschylus frame their poetry using similar principles of reciprocity; second, it demonstrates that each poet depicts truth in a way that is specific to those reciprocity principles; and finally, it illustrates how their depictions of gender are shaped by this intertwining of truth and reciprocity. By demonstrating their complementarity, the book situates Pindar and Aeschylus in the same poetic ecosystem, which has implications for how we understand ancient Greek poetry more broadly: using Pindar and Aeschylus as case studies, the book provides a window into their dynamic and interactive poetic world, a world in which ostensibly dissimilar poets and genres actually have much more in common than we might think.

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PROLOGUE: CONTEXTS FOR COMPLEMENTARITY
- The Structure of the Book
- CHAPTER ONE: RECIPROCITY AND TRUTH IN PINDAR AND AESCHYLUS
- Reciprocity
- Reciprocity and Truth in Pindaric Epinician
- Poetry and Reciprocity in Pindar
- Aletheia and Poetic Reciprocity
- Truth Personified: Fragment 205 and Olympian 10
- Reciprocity, Revenge, and Truth in Aeschylus
- The Language of Reciprocity in Aeschylus
- Reciprocity and Truth? The Danaids’ Ode to Zeus
- Truth as “What Happens”
- Truth in Untruth: Clytemnestra
- The Truth of Reciprocity
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER TWO: THE TRUTH OF RECIPROCITY IN PINDAR’S MYTHS
Olympian 10: Truth, Obligation, and Reciprocity
- Truth, Praise, and Poetic Obligation in Olympian 1
- Parity, Reality, and Poetry: Nemean 7
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER THREE: GENDER, RECIPROCITY, AND TRUTH IN PINDAR
- The Significance of Gender
- The Hera-Cloud of Pythian 2
- The Active-Passive Paradox: Feminizing Male Deception
- The Hera-Cloud’s Ancestors and Epinician Poetry
- Coronis in Pythian 3: Aletheia, Myth, And Poetry
- Coronis and Poetry
- Hippolyta in Nemean 5: Seduction, Deception, Poetry
- Male Seduction
- Aegisthus and Clytemnestra in Pythian 11
- Jason and Medea in Pythian 4
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER FOUR: WOMEN KNOW BEST: AESCHYLUS’ SEVEN AGAINST THEBES
- Eteocles’ Attempt at Narrative Control
- The Chorus’ Messengers
- Etumos and Alethes
- Sight, Sound, and Interpretation
- Danaus as Comparison
- The Shields: Partial Visions And Truths
- Tydeus
- Capaneus and Eteoclus
- Hippomedon and Parthenopaeus
- Amphiaraus
- Polyneices: Symmetry and Repetition
- The Chorus and the Continuity of Reciprocity
- Alethes
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER FIVE: FEMALE AUTHORSHIP: FORGING TRUTH IN AESCHYLUS’ SUPPLIANTS
- Truth and Time
- Truth and Dike
- The Danaids as Autobiographers
- The Danaids and Pelasgus: Forging Collaboration
- The Limits of Female Narrative Control
- Conclusion
- CHAPTER SIX: TRUTH, GENDER, AND REVENGE IN AESCHYLUS’ ORESTEIA
- Clytemnestra and the Herald: Different Sources of Truth
- Gendered Truths: Etumos and Alethes
- Cassandra: Truth in Prophecy
- Cassandra as Mirror: Time, Truth, Reciprocity
- Female Truth and Tragedy
- Aegisthus: Revenge without Truth
- The Evolution of Reciprocity and Truth in Choephori and Eumenides
- Conclusion
- EPILOGUE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY