10. Pylades and Orestes in Pindar’s Eleventh Pythian: The Uses of Friendship

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Introduction 1
4. EPIC AND LYRIC
5. 1. The Authority of Orpheus, Poet and Bard: Between Tradition and Written Practice 13
6. 2. Remembering the Gastēr 37
7. 3. Achilles Polytropos and Odysseus as Suitor: Iliad 9.307-429 51
8. 4. Hector’s Inaction (Iliad 5.471-492) 77
9. 5. Epic Space Revisited: Narrative and Intertext in the Episode between Diomedes and Glaucus (Il. 6.119-236) 87
10. 6. Idealism in the Odyssey and the Meaning of mounos in Odyssey 16 115
11. 7. Reading the Epic Past: The Iliad on Heroic Epic 129
12. 8. The Meaning of homoios (όμοĩος) in Theogony 27 and Elsewhere 153
13. 9. Hesiod, Th. 117 and 128: Formula and the Text’s Temporality 169
14. 10. Pylades and Orestes in Pindar’s Eleventh Pythian: The Uses of Friendship 187
15. DRAMA
16. 1. Aeschylus, Suppliants 112-150 203
17. 2. Sons of the Shield: Paternal Arms in Epic and Tragedy 219
18. 3. Echoes from Mount Cithaeron 235
19. 4. Notes on Tragic Rhetoric in Euripides’ Hecuba 249
20. 5. The Lady Vanishes: Helen and Her Phantom in Euripidean Drama 263
21. 6. “A Song to Match my Song”: Lyric Doubling in Euripides’ Helen 283
22. 7. Tyrants and Flatterers: Kolakeia in Aristophanes’ Knights and Wasps 303
23. 8. Do Not Sit near Socrates (Aristophanes’ Frogs, 1482-1499) 339
24. 9. Veiled Venom: Comedy, Censorship and Figuration 359
25. PROSE
26. 1. Shifting Paradigms: Mimesis in Isocrates 377
27. 2. Polybius and Daniel: Two Universal Histories, or What Does It Mean To Be Contemporary? 401
28. Backmatter 413