Telamonian Ajax by Sophie Marianne Bocksberger, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Telamonian Ajax by Sophie Marianne Bocksberger, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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Telamonian Ajax by Sophie Marianne Bocksberger, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Sophie Marianne Bocksberger

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Telamonian Ajax provides a complete overview of the development of Telamonian Ajax's myth in archaic and classical Greece. It is a systematic study of the representations of the hero in all kinds of media, such as literature, art, or cultic practice, establishing how and why the constitutiveelements of Ajax's myth evolved by examining the way the literary works and visual representations in which he features were influenced by the historical, socio-cultural, and performative contexts of their receptions. Bocksberger's study focuses on three main loci of reception: the Panhellenicfigure of Ajax, through a study of early Greek hexameter poetry and archaic art; archaic and classical Aegina; and archaic and classical Athens. By following in the footsteps of Ajax, this study offers a journey across the archaic and classical history of the Saronic Gulf, and exemplifies the mannerin which the respective priorities of art, cult, and politics could be negotiated through the re-configuration of a mythological figure. This book establishes the outline of Telamonian Ajax's pre-Homeric gesta in order to understand how it was received in early Greek hexameter poetry, especially inthe Iliad. Moreover, it investigates the important political role the hero had in the context of Atheno-Aeginetan rivalry in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE in order to show the profound impact the historical context had on the shaping of his myth. | Telamonian Ajax by Sophie Marianne Bocksberger, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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