The Poetics of Colonization: From City to Text in Archaic Greece

220 Pages·1993·13.24 MB·English

by  Carol Dougherty

The Poetics of Colonization
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The Poetics of
Colonization
From City to Text in Archaic Greece
CAROL DOUGHERTY
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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1993
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Dougherty, Carol, 1958-
The poetics of colonization : from city to text in archaic Greece
/ Carol Dougherty,
p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-19-508399-7
1. Greek literature—History and criticism. 2. Cities and towns—
Greece—Historiography. 3. City and town life in literature.
4. Greece—Colonies—Historiography. 5. Literature and history-
Greece. 6. Imperialism in literature. 7. Colonies in literature.
8. Narration (Rhetoric) 9. Rhetoric, Ancient. I. Title.
PA3009.D68 1993 880.9'321732—dc20 92-41090
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Acknowledgments
I would first like to thank W. R. Connor, Richard P. Martin, and Froma I. Zeitlin
whose intellectual influence and encouragement have extended far beyond their for-
mal role as dissertation advisors. Their work consistently reinvents the boundaries
of our field and will always influence the kinds of questions I ask.
In its various stages, this book has benefitted a great deal from many different
people. Thanks to my Wellesley colleagues: Katherine Geffcken, Rachel Jacoff,
Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Miranda Marvin, Alison Mclntyre, Guy Rogers, Ray Starr, and
Susan Taylor. Special thanks go to Mary Lefkowitz, who may not always agree
with me but who listens nonetheless, to Martin Brody and Randall Colaizzi for their
astute stylistic (and other) advice, and to Tom Cushman for allowing me to appro-
priate his ancestor for my introduction. In addition, Sarah Harrell was a great help
in preparing an earlier version of the manuscript. I am also indebted to my col-
leagues in the greater Boston area: Carla Antonaccio, Deborah Boedeker, Leonard
Muellner, Ian Rutherford, Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, and Emily Vermeule. I would
like to add a special thanks to Gregory Nagy for his good-natured support and last-
minute proofreading.
Wellesley College's generous early leave policy provided the much needed time
and peace of mind to finish this project, and I would like to thank the Classics
Department at UC Berkeley for creating such a welcome workplace for my leave
year, particularly my good friend and collaborator, Leslie Kurke. I am grateful to
have had the opportunity to talk with many other people in the Bay Area as well,
both new and old acquaintances, whose insight and encouragement made this a
much better book: Karen Bassi, Mark Griffith, Tom Habinek, Lisa Maurizio,
Marsh McCall, Andrea Wilson Nightingale, and Susan Stephens.
Finally, I would like to thank Cambridge University Press, Classical Antiquity,
and Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies for allowing me to reprint previously
published material. Research for this book was also supported by a National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend in 1990. Pindar references are to
the edition of B. Snell, revised by H. Maehler (Leipzig 1980); Bacchylides refer-
ences are to the edition of H. Maehler (Leiden 1982). Abbreviations for ancient
works follow the Oxford Classical Dictionary (2nd ed.); a list of further abbrevia-
tions follows.
Wellesley, Massachusetts C.D.
February 1993
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Contents
Introduction: The Poetics of Colonization, 3
Part I. Narratives and Metaphors: Translating the City into Text
1. Laying the Foundations: Narrative and Cult, 15
2. Murderous Founders, 31
3. Impossible Sites, 45
4. The Lay of the Land, 61
Part II. Texts in Context: Staging the City
5. Hieron and Aetna, 83
6. Pythian 5: Colonial Founders and Athletic Victors, 103
7. Olympian 1 and Bacchylides Ode 11: Murder, Victory, and Colonization, 120
8. Pythian 9: Appropriating the Native, 136
Conclusion: Interpreting the Metaphors, 157
Appendix, 165
Bibliography, 189
Index of Passages, 201
Subject Index, 205
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Abbreviations
AJP American Journal of Philology
Annales (ESC) Annales (Economic, Societes, Civilisations)
ARV2 J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 2nd ed.
(Oxford 1963)
ASNP Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di
Lettere e Filosofia
BCH Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique
BICS Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies
BSA Annual of the British School of Athens
CA Classical Antiquity
CAH Cambridge Ancient History
CJ Classical Journal
CP Classical Philology
CQ Classical Quarterly
CR Classical Review
CRDAC Centra ricerche e documentazione sull' antichita classica.
Atti. Rome.
CSC A California Studies in Classical Antiquity
CW Classical World
DK Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, ed. H. Diels and W. Kranz
FGrH Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker, ed. F. Jacoby
FHG Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, 5 vols., ed. C. Mttller
GRBS Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
HSCP Harvard Studies in Classical Philology
HTR Harvard Theological Review
ICS Illinois Classical Studies
IG Inscriptiones Graecae
JHS Journal of Hellenic Studies
L-P Lobel and Page 1955