IV. Panhellenic Monuments of Salamis 28. Thank offering consisting of three Phoenician triremes, one dedicated at the Isthmus, one at Sunium, and one for Ajax at Salamis. Herodotus 8.121.1; cf. 8.109.3. Macan 1907,1: 548; Rouse 1907: 105; How and Wells 1912,2: 275; Fimmen 1916: 2263; Meyer 1931: 916. Herodotus 8.121.1: “First they set aside for the gods… Read more
III. Panhellenic Monuments of the Persian Wars in General 25. Gilded tripod supported by column of three entwined serpents, dedicated at Delphi. Syll.3 31; Herodotus 9.81; Thucydides 1.132.2-3; Ps-Demosthenes 59.97; Diodorus 11.33; Pausanias 10.13.9; Schol. on Thucydides 1.132. Column.In the Hippodrome, Istanbul.- Base.In Delphi. [See Bommelaer, Guide de Delphes: le site (1991) 166-167, no. 407: Delphi Guide] … Read more
II. Monuments of Marathon 4. Trophy on the plain of Marathon. Hitzig and Blümner 1896,1: 335. Perrin 1901: 297; Rouse 1902: 99; Frazer 1913,2; 44. Aristophanes, Knights 1333-1334 (Chorus, to Demos): “Hail, king of the Greeks; and we rejoice with you. For you do what is worthy of the city and the trophy on Marathon plain.” … Read more
I. Monuments of the Ionian Revolt 1. Naxos: Stater, with wreathed cahtharus, commemorating a victory over the Persians in 500 B. C. at the beginning of the Ionian Revolt. Holloway 1962. The archaic staters of Naxos, issued during the sixth century and the first decade of the fifth, bear on the obverse side a cantharus with ivy leaf and a bunch… Read more
Introduction 1. General The Greeks who defeated the Persian invaders in the early fifth century B. C. erected monuments to last beyond their lifetimes and to arouse in succeeding generations a feeling of respect and wonder for their achievement. None of the monuments commemorating these famous wars have survived in unimpaired form and few have survived at all. In view of the ravages of time and… Read more
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Appendix. On the Forms Krataió– and Akhaió– A§1. Our point of departure is the verse-final form krataiís/Krátaiin in Odyssey xi 597/xii 124. [1] The conventional explanation, that we have here an id-stem feminine built from the adjective krataió-, is plagued with difficulties on the formal and functional levels. [2] I cite in particular the verse-final ā-stem feminine… Read more
Chapter 20. Achilles beyond the Iliad 20§1. Having just seen how the neîkos ‘quarrel’ between Hesiod and Perses (Works and Days 35) serves as the context for a grand definition of díkē by way of its opposition to húbris, [1] we return one last time to the neîkos between Odysseus and Achilles (Odyssey viii 75) in the first song of Demodokos (Odyssey… Read more
Chapter 19. More on Strife and the Human Condition 19§1. The deaths of Aesop and Thersites result directly from their engaging in blame, [1] and the result of their deaths is purification. [2] It follows, then, that their engaging in blame is itself an ultimately purifying act. Thus even in the ideology of myth, blame and the… Read more
Chapter 18. On the Stories of a Poet’s Life 18§1. In the preceding chapters, I have argued that the generic warrior/poet, as therápōn of Ares/Muses, is implicitly worthy of becoming a cult hero after death. This in fact is the explicit message, I now submit, of the famous poetic declaration made by the one attested figure who boasts of being both warrior and poet: εἰμὶ δ᾽ ἐγὼ… Read more
