[publicclassics] Conflict and Competition: Agon in Western Greece

[John Serrati]

Heather L. Reid, John Serrati, and Tim Sorg (eds), Conflict and Competition: Agōn in Western Greece.  Sioux City: Parnassos, 2020.  ISBN-13: 978-1942495352

Table of Contents

Heather L. Reid, John Serrati, and Tim Sorg:  Introduction ix

Rebecca H. Sinos: The Ultimate Prize: An Orphic Image of Victory 1

Part I: Histories of Conflict and Competition

Parrish Elizabeth Wright: Identity and Agōn: Locri after the Battle at the Sagra 33

Tim Sorg: Syracuse, City of Unwilling Immigrants: A Comparative Approach to Competitive Advantage 49

John Serrati:  Agōn Sikelia: The Hannibalic War and the (Re)Organization of Roman Sicily 67

Part II: Philosophical Agōn

Federico Casella:  Conflict and Opposition: Pythagorean Strategies for the Construction of an Identity 95

Drew A. Hyland: Heraclitus: Paradigms of Polemos, Eris, Agōn, Paidia 111

Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides: A Toast to Virtue: Drinking Competitions, Plato, and the Sicilian Tyrants 123

Stephen M. Kershner and Audrey L. Anton: The Ancient Hellenic Virtue of Success 139

Part III: Civic Agōn in Performance

Eleni Kornarou: The Agonistic Element in Euripides’s Hippolytus 157

Paolo Babbiotti and Luca Torrente: Euripides’s Trojan Women: A Critique of Asymmetric Conflict? 171

Part IV: Landscapes and Livelihoods in Conflict

Richard Stoneman: Giants or Science: Cosmic Strife, Mount Etna and Aetna 187

Flora P. Manakidou: The Geography and Mythology of Athletics in Callimachus: Olympia, Magna Grecia, and Alexandria 203

Ippokratis Kantzios:  Theocritus Idylls 11 and 6: The Limitations of the Natural Landscape 219

Ewa Osek: Agōn, Agonistic Imagery, and Agonistic Argumentation in Porphyry's De Abstinentia 233

Part V: A Conflicted Afterlife: The Reception of Western Greek Agōn

Karen Sieben: Empedocles: Nietzsche’s Failed Reformer 251

Tobias Joho: Burckhardt and Nietzsche on the Agōn: the dark luster of ancient Greece

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Prof. John Serrati
Adjunct Professor
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Dept of Classics and Religious Studies
University of Ottawa
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