Re-fashioning Anakreon in classical Athens / Alan Shapiro.

Author
Shapiro, H. A. (Harvey Alan), 1949- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • München, Germany : Wilhelm Fink, [2012]
  • ©2012
Description
1 online resource.

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Series
Morphomata Lectures Cologne; volume2. [More in this series]
Summary note
This monograph investigates the reception and image of the Archaic Greek lyric Poet Anakreon of Teos (ca. 570 – 486 BCE) in fifth-century Athens. The focus is on the full-length marble portrait statue of Anakreon found in a Roman villa and now housed in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. The statue, widely believed to be a copy of a Greek bronze original that stood on the Athenian Akropolis some fifty years after the poet’s death, raises a plethora of intriguing questions. What role did the Ionian poet, whose activity in Athens began under the Peisistratid tyrants, play in the cultural and political program of the radical democratic statesman Perikles, or of the oligarchic opposition to Perikles? How were the distinctive features of the statue – its almost complete nudity and shaky stance hinting at inebriation – understood by the figure’s contemporary viewers?
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Contents
  • Preliminary Material
  • The Anakreon Borghese
  • Anakreon in Athens
  • Nudity and Infibulation
  • Anakreon and the Symposium
  • Symposium and Pederasty in the Age of Perikles
  • Anakreon, the Model Erastes
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Photo Credits
  • Text Credit.
ISBN
3-8467-5449-8
OCLC
1243540618
Doi
  • 10.30965/9783846754498
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