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By setting epinician in dialogue with the colorful stories about athletes that circulated in the same period, The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West offers a new and compelling account of the Deinomenids' self-promotion and of the complex communities within and around the Deinomenid empire.
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The Poetics of Victory in the Greek West examines the relationship between epinician and the heroizing narratives about athletes, or "hero-athlete narratives," that circulated orally in Sicily and Italy in the late archaic and early classical period. Drawing on the colorful stories told about athletes in later sources, the fragments of Simonides, and the surviving odes of Pindar and Bacchylides, it argues that epinician was formed in opposition to orally transmitted narratives and that these two forms-epinician and the hero-athlete narrative-promoted opposed political visions, with epinician promoting the Deinomenid empire and its structures and the hero-athlete narrative opposing Deinomenid...
Die vorliegende Bibliographie zu Ernst Jünger führt den 2003 erschienenen Vorgängerband weiter und dokumentiert die komplexe Forschungsgeschichte bis zum Jahr 2015 in übersichtlicher Systematik: Monographien, Kongress-Schriften, Beiträge in Zeitschriften und Sammelwerken, versteckte Buchkapitel und Nachträge zum vorausgegangenen Berichtszeitraum. Der Registerteil bietet vielfältige Suchhilfen nach Namen, Begriffen und Werktiteln. Für die Auseinandersetzung mit Leben und Werk Ernst Jüngers, der sich mittlerweile als Klassiker der Moderne etabliert hat, ist die neue Bibliographie ein unentbehrlicher Kompass.