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Abstract - The purpose of this paper is
first to suggest that the mythical section of
Bacchylides 5 is governed by a certain literary
strategy, namely the inversion of social and literary
norms pertaining to gender as well as the heroic ideal.
Second, by looking at the historical context of the ode
I venture to demonstrate that, as presented in the
mythical section, the key inversion of external into
internal war might have had a concrete meaning for the
laudandus, Hieron of Syracuse. |