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Cover 1 Series 3 Myth, Locality, and Identity in Pindar’s Sicilian Odes 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 List of Figures 12 Acknowledgments 14 List of Editions and Abbreviations 18 Introduction 22 Epinician Poetry and Local Contexts 26 Pindar’s Sicilian Odes 26 Other Local Contexts for Pindaric Epinician Poetry 30 Myth and Locality in Pindar’s Odes 37 Space, Place, and Landscape 38 Classics and the Study of Myth and Place 41 Previous Studies of Place in Epinician Poetry 42 Identity in Pindar’s Sicilian Odes 46 Outline of Chapters 48 1. Arriving in Syracuse: Arethusa and Syracusan Civic Identity 51 Syracuse Under the Deinomenids 54 Pindar’s Epinician Odes for Syracusan Victors 57 Arethusa as a Syracusan Civic Symbol: Numismatic Evidence 59 Arethusa and Alpheos in the Syracusan Odes 62 The Mythical Connection Between Syracuse and the Peloponnese 70 Artemis Alpheioa in Syracuse and in the Peloponnese 84 Performance Contexts and Conclusions 90 ­2. Demeter and Persephone: Ancestral Cult and Sicilian Identity 94 Material Evidence for the Cults of Demeter and Persephone in Syracuse 95 Demeter and Persephone in the Sicilian Mythic Tradition 100 Diodorus’ Narrative of Persephone’s Abdu

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Virginia M. Lewis;

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