6. Sacred Apostrophe: Re-Presentation and Imitation in Homeric Hymn to Apollo and Homeric Hymn to Hermes [1] I. Genre and History From the beginning, the Homeric hymns mark both beginning and end. They come before the recitation of epic, but… Read more
7. Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite: Tradition and Rhetoric, Praise and Blame [1] I. Introduction The Homeric hymn is a traditional form of praise poetry. Employing traditional diction, theme, and structure, the hymn presents an epiphany of the god and an aetiology… Read more
8. The (Re)Marriage of Penelope and Odysseus [1] In the (re)marriage of Odysseus and Penelope, the Odyssey initiates a dialogue with the Western traditions of architecture, gender, and philosophy. [2] Although defined conceptually by discourses “invented” as… Read more
9. Architecture Gender Philosophy [1] εἷς, δύο, τρεῖς· One, two, three. Timaeus 17a1 I broach the topic of architecture and gender and philosophy first because of… Read more
10. Female Fetish Urban Form [1] I. Introduction Female, fetish, and urban form are mutually fashioned in Aristophanes’ comedy Ecclesiazusae, in which the women of Athens, under the leadership of their new στρατηγός “general” Praxagora, disguise themselves… Read more
V. The Emergence of Pisatis Maurizio Giangiulio Emergence, or Re-emergence? At the end of the nineteenth century probably no ancient historian would have doubted that the Pisatans had been the inhabitants of the Alpheios’ valley, which in the first decades of the sixth century BCE… Read more
VI. Arcadia: Ethnicity and Politics in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE [*] Maria Pretzler The emergence of Arcadian identity, and its culmination in the foundation of an Arcadian state in 370 BCE, was a crucial factor in the disintegration of… Read more
VII. Messenian Ethnicity and the Free Messenians [*] Nino Luraghi The birth of an independent polity in Messenia, in what used to be the western part of the Spartan state, represents the most conspicuous change that the ethnic revival of the early fourth… Read more
VIII. Ethnicity and Democracy in the Peloponnese, 401–362 BCE Eric Robinson In 370 BCE civil strife broke out in Tegea between a conservative party favoring Tegea’s traditional laws (patrious nomous) and a popular, nationalistic party in favor of all Arcadians coming together en tô koinô to… Read more
IX. The Archaeology of Ethnê and Ethnicity in the Fourth-Century Peloponnese Catherine Morgan It is nowadays hardly controversial to view poleis and ethnê not as distinct forms of state, but as tiers of identity with which communities identified with varying enthusiasm and motivation at different times. Read more
