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Oligarchic Hestia: Bacchylides 14B and Pindar, Nemean 11*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

David Fearn
David Fearn
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University of Warwick
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Abstract:

This article uses recent findings about the diversity of political organization in Archaic and Classical Greece beyond Athens, and methodological considerations about the role of civic Hestia in oligarchic communities, to add sharpness to current work on the political contextualization of Classical enkomiastic poetry. The two works considered here remind us of the epichoric political significance of such poetry, because of their attunement to two divergent oligarchic contexts. They thus help to get us back to specific fifth-century political as well as cultural Realien.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 129 , November 2009 , pp. 23 - 38
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 2009

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