Reviews
A profoundly innovative, challenging, and ambitious book. Neer and Kurke integrate the full resources of art history, archaeology, and philology to show how rich an understanding of the operation of classical texts and spaces we can achieve. The book reveals how much can be accomplished in classical studies when two scholars at the top of different fields genuinely work together.
A seminal and unique contribution. This volume—which will appeal to classicists, archaeologists, and art historians—is destined for great things, and is the sort of book that only very rarely appears in a generation. The breadth of monuments and landscapes covered in the book is breathtaking. All of it is drawn together by a well-conceived methodology and a nuanced reading of one of the great poets of the Greek canon.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
Note on Abbreviations, Texts, and Transliteration
Introduction. The Propinquity of Things
Part I. Orientations and Local Spaces
Chapter 1. Two Spatial Technologies: The Map and the
Acknowledgments
Note on Abbreviations, Texts, and Transliteration
Introduction. The Propinquity of Things
Part I. Orientations and Local Spaces
Chapter 1. Two Spatial Technologies: The Map and the Chorus
Chapter 2. Statues, Songs, and Spaces
Chapter 3. The Strength of Equipment and the Radiance of Song: Collaborative Effects
Chapter 4. Fr. 75 SM and the Politics of Athenian Space
Part II. Pindar's Cyrene: Pythians 4, 5, and 9
Chapter 5. Cyrene, a Pindaric Schema
Chapter 6. The City, the Body, and the Eye
Part III. Pindar's Greece: Olympian 6 and the Spaces of Tyranny
Chapter 7. Epigraphy, Architecture, Song: Olympian 6 and Other Gifts
Chapter 8. Pindar's Transports
Coda. Towards a Lyric Archaeology
Appendix. Dating the Porch of the Geloan Treasury at Olympia
Notes
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index