The world of Ion of Chios / / edited by Victoria Jennings, Andrea Katsaros.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne ; v. 288
• TeilnehmendeR: Jennings, Victoria, 1970-; Katsaros, Andrea.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 288.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (465 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; Chapter One. Introduction /; Chapter Two. The hocus of a hedgehog: Ion’s versatility /; Chapter Three. Shot from the canon: Sources, selections, survivals /; Chapter Four. The poet and the place: A modern Chian perspective on Ion of Chios and his home Island /; Chapter Five. Ion’s epidemiai and Plutarch’s Ion /; Chapter Six. Ion of Chios and politics /; Chapter Seven. Ion the Wineman: The manipulation of myth /; Chapter Eight. Trapped between Athens and Chios: A relationship in fragments /; Chapter Nine. Ion of Chios and the politics of Polychordia /; Chapter Ten. Snowy Helen and Bull-Faced Wine: Ion and the logic of poetic language /; Chapter Eleven. Staging empire and other in Ion’s Sympotica /; Chapter Twelve. Ion of Chios: Tragedy as commodity at the athenian exchange /; Chapter Thirteen. Ion of Chios, Sophocles, and Myth /; Chapter Fourteen. Looking for Omphale /; Chapter Fifteen. Playing the Pythagorean: Ion’s Triagmos /; Chapter Sixteen. Legwork: Ion’s Socrates /; Chapter Seventeen. Ion’s hymn to Kairos /; Bibliography /; Concordance to the fragments of Ion of Chios /; Index of passages cited /; Greek index /; General index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 1281936014; 9786611936013; 9047421183
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Victoria Jennings, Andrea Katsaros.

Sixteen international contributors investigate the life, works and reception of Ion of Chios (490/80-420s BC), the prolific Greek writer famed in antiquity for his polyeideia. His extraordinary range of writings in prose and poetry across multiple genres include tragedy, elegy, history, biography, mythography and philosophy. Ion is important to any study of Classical Greece because of the literary innovations which he pioneered. He is significant to the history of Athens and Chios as a contemporary of and commentator on Aeschylus, Cimon, Sophocles, Pericles, Themistocles and Socrates. This book is the first to examine how this fascinating but neglected man interacted with his peers and conceptualized himself and his world during one of the most exciting periods of ancient history.