The world of Ion of Chios /

The world of Ion of Chios /

Sixteen international contributors investigate the life, works and reception of Ion of Chios (490/80-420s BC), the prolific Greek writer famed in antiquity for his polyeideia. His extraordinary range of writings in prose and poetry across multiple genres include tragedy, elegy, history, biography, m...

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Other Authors: Jennings, Victoria, 1970-, Katsaros, Andrea.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston : Brill, 2007.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 288.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

Subjects:

Ion, > of Chios.
Bellettrie.
Grieks.
Receptie.
Greek literature > History and criticism.

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Call Number: PA4213.I6 W674 2007

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material /
  • Dr. Katsaros and Jennings
  • Chapter One. Introduction /
  • Victoria Jennings and Andrea Katsaros
  • Chapter Two. The hocus of a hedgehog: Ion's versatility /
  • John Henderson
  • Chapter Three. Shot from the canon: Sources, selections, survivals /
  • Guy Olding
  • Chapter Four. The poet and the place: A modern Chian perspective on Ion of Chios and his home Island /
  • Nikos K. Haviaras
  • Chapter Five. Ion's epidemiai and Plutarch's Ion /
  • Christopher Pelling
  • Chapter Six. Ion of Chios and politics /
  • Anne Geddes
  • Chapter Seven. Ion the Wineman: The manipulation of myth /
  • Guy Olding
  • Chapter Eight. Trapped between Athens and Chios: A relationship in fragments /
  • Alastair Blanshard
  • Chapter Nine. Ion of Chios and the politics of Polychordia /
  • Timothy Power
  • Chapter Ten. Snowy Helen and Bull-Faced Wine: Ion and the logic of poetic language /
  • Michael Clarke
  • Chapter Eleven. Staging empire and other in Ion's Sympotica /
  • Andrea Katsaros
  • Chapter Twelve. Ion of Chios: Tragedy as commodity at the athenian exchange /
  • Alexander Stevens
  • Chapter Thirteen. Ion of Chios, Sophocles, and Myth /
  • Judith Maitland
  • Chapter Fourteen. Looking for Omphale /
  • Pat Easterling
  • Chapter Fifteen. Playing the Pythagorean: Ion's Triagmos /
  • Han Baltussen
  • Chapter Sixteen. Legwork: Ion's Socrates /
  • Richard Fletcher
  • Chapter Seventeen. Ion's hymn to Kairos /
  • Victoria Jennings
  • Bibliography /
  • Dr. Katsaros and Jennings
  • Concordance to the fragments of Ion of Chios /
  • Dr. Katsaros and Jennings
  • Index of passages cited /
  • Dr. Katsaros and Jennings
  • Greek index /
  • Dr. Katsaros and Jennings
  • General index /
  • Dr. Katsaros and Jennings.