Pindar, Hieron and the Persian Wars: History and Poetic Competition in Pythian 1, 71 - 80

In Pi. Pyth. 1, 71 - 80 the battles of Himera and Kyme, in which the Deinomenid rulers of Syracuse defeated the Carthaginians and Etruscans in 480 and 474 BC, are equated with the battles of Salamis and Plataea. In particular, the idea of a supreme effort for preserving Greek freedom, frequent in co...

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Main Author: Fries, Almut 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Österreichischen Akademie d. Wissenschaften [2017]
In: Wiener Studien
Year: 2017, Volume: 130, Pages: 59-72
RelBib Classification:KBJ Italy
TB Antiquity
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