: Stephanie L. Larson
: Tales of Epic Ancestry Boiotian Collective Identity in the Late Archaic and Early Classical Periods
: Franz Steiner Verlag
: 9783515117944
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This e-book explores late-sixth and early fifth-century Boiotia as a case study in the construction and articulation of collective identity in archaic and early classical Greece. By juxtaposing a variety of sources - historio­graphy, numismatics, iconography, epigraphy - the author discusses traditions of Boiotian descent and territory as well as Boiotian use of a common symbol, promotion of shared dialect, and use of a common name. These sources suggest that by the late sixth century the Boiotians actively promoted collective links to Athena and Thessaly as well as to epic tradition and specific epic heroes. They did not begin using their collective name in a strictly political or military sense until the middle of the fifth century BC.
With this ethnic portrait, the author offers an alternate explanation to the opinio communis that attributes late sixth-century Boiotian solidarity to an early political and military federation of poleis. The author rather argues that the Boiotians adopted a permanent federal system only in the mid-fifth century.
CONTENTS6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS8
INTRODUCTION10
APPROACH AND STRUCTURE10
SOURCES, METHODS, RESTRICTIONS, AND TERMINOLOGY13
CHAPTER 118
BOIOTOS’ PARENTAGE19
BOIOTOS’ CHILDREN24
SUMMARY AND DATE OF THE TRADITION26
PRIMARY CONSEQUENCES OF BOIOTOS’ GENEALOGY27
Aiolos27
Poseidon30
CONCLUSIONS30
CHAPTER 232
THE ILIAD33
A. The Catalogue of Ships (Il. 2.494–511)33
B. Arne41
BETWEEN THE ILIAD AND EHOIAI: ARNE AND BOIOTOS42
ADDITIONAL EPIC REPRESENTATIONS OF BOIOTIANS IN THE ILIAD49
THE ASPIS51
CONCLUSIONS: THE ARCHAIC SOURCES53
THUCYDIDES ON BOIOTIAN MIGRATION AND HABITATION53
A. The Text54
B. Interpreting Thucydides 1.1257
C. Thucydides and the Ehoiai62
D. Implications of Thucydides’ Account63
RECAPITULATION65
CHAPTER 368
A NUMISMATIC HISTORY AND A RECONSIDERATION OF BOIOTIAN COINAGE69
PROBLEMS IN ASSESSING BOIOTIAN COINAGE72
THE SYMBOL OF THE CUTOUT SHIELD75
A. The Chalkidian Issues, the Asyut Hoard, and the Beginnings of Boiotian Coinage75
B. The Pun79
C. Divine Significance81
D. Links Between the Shield and the Aiakids in Genealogy and Iconography81
E. The Boiotian Provenience of Ajax’s Shield94
F. Ajax’s Shield Type96
G. Boiotian Links to Shields in the Aspis98
H. Boiotian Manufacture of Raw Materials and Weaponry101
RECAPITULATION AND SPECULATION ON AN ICONOGRAPHIC SHIFT107
CHAPTER 4112
SOURCES114
SELECT DETAILS OF BOIOTIAN DIALECT116
A FEW EPICIZING EXAMPLES124
CHAPTER 5130
BOIOTIAN USE OF REGIONAL ETHNICS (INTERNAL USE)132
A. The Sixth Century132
B. The Early to Mid-Fifth Century143
P i n d a r143
E p i g r a p h i c E v i d e n c e146
NON-BOIOTIAN USE OF REGIONAL ETHNICS (EXTERNAL USE)151
CONCLUSIONS162
CHAPTER 6166
EARLIER APPROACHES167
THE FIFTH-CENTURY HISTORIANS169
A. The Collective Regional Ethnic in Herodotus169
B. Herodotus’ Use of the Term Boiotarchai173
C. Thucydides’ Boiotians: the Plataian Debate175
T h e P l a t a i a n S p e e c h175
T h e T h e b a n S p e e c h177
EVIDENCE FOR SIXTH-CENTURY POLIS RIVALRY AND INDEPENDENCE183
KORONEIA: A FIFTH-CENTURY TURNING POINT185
CHAPTER 7190
EXTERNAL CATALYSTS FOR BOIOTIAN COLLECTIVE COHESION195
ICONOGRAPHIC APPENDIX200
A. ACHILLES IN BLACK FIGURE WITH CUTOUT SHIELD200
B. OTHER ARCHAIC MEDIA DEPICTING ACHILLES AND THE CUTOUT SHIELD207
C. ACHILLES IN BLACK FIGURE WITH ROUND SHIELD207
D. AJAX IN BLACK FIGURE WITH CUTOUT SHIELD209
E. AJAX IN BLACK FIGURE WITH ROUND SHIELD211
F. ACHILLES IN RED FIGURE WITH CUTOUT SHIELD211
G. ACHILLES IN RED FIGURE WITH ROUND SHIELD212
H. AJAX IN RED FIGURE WITH CUTOUT SHIELD215
I. AJAX IN RED FIGURE WITH ROUND SHIELD215
J. MENELAOS IN BLACK AND RED FIGURE215
BIBLIOGRAPHY218
INDEX OF SOURCES234
I. LITERARY SOURCES AND TEXTS234
II. INSCRIPTIONS235
GENERAL INDEX236