Reciprocity, Truth, and Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus

Arum Park (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

254 Seiten

2023
The University of Michigan Press (Verlag)
978-0-472-13342-0 (ISBN)

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Explores the notoriously difficult ancient Greek poetry of Aeschylus and Pindar and seeks to articulate the complex relationship between them. Previous scholarship has often treated Pindar and Aeschylus as representatives of contrasting worldviews. This comparative study offers the alternative perspective of understanding them as complements.

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.

Arum Park is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona.

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
Alētheia 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: Alētheia, 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 Alēthēs
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
Alēthēs
Conclusion
CHAPTER FIVE: FEMALE AUTHORSHIP: FORGING TRUTH IN AESCHYLUS’ SUPPLIANTS
Truth and Time
Truth and Dikē
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 Alēthēs
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

Erscheinungsdatum	08.06.2023
Verlagsort	Ann Arbor
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 231 mm
Gewicht	440 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-472-13342-X / 047213342X
ISBN-13	978-0-472-13342-0 / 9780472133420
Zustand	Neuware