The Contributors

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface IX
4. Part I: Epos
5. Historicizing Homer’s Myth in the Homeric Epigrams 1
6. The Aristotelian Constitution of the Ithacans and Homero-Cyclic Reception of the Odyssey 13
7. “Let Me Tell You an Ancient Deed of the Distant Past”: The Epic Hero as a ‘Historian’ 25
8. Authority, Power and Governability in the Odyssey: The Mythical Birth of the Polis 37
9. Part II: Lyric Poetry
10. Domestic and Political Order in the ‘Foundation Myths’ of Partheneia 55
11. Myth, Memory and a Massacre on the Road to Dodona: Reinterpreting an Elegiac Lament from Archaic Ambracia (SEG 41.540A) 77
12. Part III: Historiography
13. Shaping History: The Case of the Tyrannicides and the Marathonomachoi 97
14. The Myth of Troy Turned into History: Thucydides’ Archaeology 119
15. The Argive Women, Beards and Democracy 131
16. Seeking Agariste 147
17. The Herodotean Myth on the Origin of the Scythians 167
18. Part IV: Drama
19. (Re)writing a Sicilian Myth: The Palici and Aeschylus’ Aitnaiai 187
20. “To Be Buried or Not to Be Buried?” Necropolitics in Athenian History and Sophocles’ Antigone 207
21. Sophocles’ Trachiniae and the Peloponnesian War: A New Perspective 221
22. The Authority of ‘History’ in the Exodus of Sophocles’ Trachiniae 245
23. Nectanebo II and Philip II in Mythic Disguise: Comedy’s Burlesque of History 263
24. Part V: Loci and Tempora
25. The Myth of Opheltes at Nemea in the Context of Rivalry in the Archaic Peloponnese 277
26. Marginal Remarks on the Concept of ‘Time of Origins’ in Classical Greek Culture 291
27. Myth and History in the Court of Archelaus 303
28. Part VI: Roman Era and Late Antiquity
29. “Oceans Rise, Empires Fall”: Cyclical Time and History in Seneca’s Quaestiones Naturales 3 321
30. Herodotus’ Phoenix between Hesiod and Papyrus Harris 500, and Its Legacy in Tacitus 339
31. Empire, Ethnicity, Exegesis: Lucian on Interpretations of Greek Myth in the Roman Mediterranean 359
32. Myth and History in Libanius’ Imperial Speeches 375
33. Myth and Levels of Language in the Octavia 387
34. Appendix
35. The Editors 407
36. The Contributors 411
37. Index Rerum et Nominum Notabiliorum 415