Micah Y. Myers - Classics Department, Stanford University
| 120701 | Footrace, Dance, and Desire: The χορός of Danaids in Pindar’s Pythian 9 | |
| Micah Y. Myers, Stanford University | ||
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Abstract - This paper offers a new interpretation of Pindar’s Pythian 9.112-16, which relates the story of Danaos marrying off his forty-eight daughters. Previously, these lines have been understood as describing a footrace by the daughter’s suitors to determine which suitor would marry which daughter. By reanalyzing Pindar’s diction I suggest that this passage also depicts Danaos’ daughters in the marked terms of choral performance. This interpretation not only matches the representation of the Danaids as a performing chorus in Phyrnicus’ Danaids and Aeschylus’ Suppliants, but it also further illuminates the way desire permeates and organizes this particular Pindaric ode. | |
| This paper replaces version 1 (080702) originally posted in August 2007. | ||
| This paper has been published as follows: Myers, M. (2007) “Footrace, Dance, and Desire: The χορός of Danaids in Pindar’s Pythian 9.” SIFC 5.2: 230-47. | ||
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| 080702 | Footrace, Dance, and Desire: The χορός of Danaids in Pindar’s Pythian 9 | |
| Micah Y. Myers, Stanford University | ||
| Revised December 2007. See entry 120701. | ||
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