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Weaving pseudea homoia etumoisin ‘false things like to real things’. 6. Sacred Apostrophe: Re-Presentation and Imitation in Homeric Hymn to Apollo and Homeric Hymn to Hermes

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 after Homeric epic has reached its peak. The evidence is scanty, but so far as we can tell, the works… Read more

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Weaving pseudea homoia etumoisin ‘false things like to real things’. 7. Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite: Tradition and Rhetoric, Praise and Blame

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 of his or her powers. [2] The traditional rhetoric of the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite… Read more

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Weaving in Architecture: The Truth of Building. 10. Female Fetish Urban Form

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 as men in order to infiltrate the ἐκκλησία, the male-only “legislative assembly,” where they vote in a new order, one… Read more

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V. Maurizio Giangiulio, The Emergence of Pisatis

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 the Eleans subdued and stripped of control of the Olympic Games. Many would have shared the opinion expressed by Georg… Read more

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VII. Nino Luraghi, Messenian Ethnicity and the Free Messenians

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 century brought to the political map of the Peloponnese. Although both its extension and its internal structure varied in the… Read more

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VIII. Eric Robinson, Ethnicity and Democracy in the Peloponnese, 401–362 BCE

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 make common decisions. The populists won, but only after they armed the dêmos and gained the aid of Mantineans who… Read more

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IX. Catherine Morgan, The Archaeology of Ethnê and Ethnicity in the Fourth-Century Peloponnese

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. [*] States were palimpsests of social action, and behaviour enacted over different social and/or physical… Read more