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19 novembre 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.efa.6632
- isbn: 9782869583139
- eisbn: 9782869584662
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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fouille Grèce site archéologique célébration cheval religion sport horse excavation Ancient Greece celebration religion sport caballo excavación ciudad griega Grecia antigua religión deporte cavallo scavo religione Grecia sport Pferd Ausgrabung religion sport Classics History & Archaeology HIS002010 HBLACiter ce document
Canali De Rossi Filippo, « Identification of some winners in the keles race in Posidippus’ epigrams », École française d’Athènes, ID : 10.4000/books.efa.6632
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Through an examination of epigrams concerning the race for single horses in the Hippikà section of the Milan Papyrus Vogliano VIII 309, the author develops the hypothesis that these epinician epigrams did not celebrate contemporary victories (such as those for the Ptolemies), but instead, historical winners of the past. It seems that in doing so Posidippus recycled facts from the history of Greek sport that already belonged to a shared knowledge, like the multiple victories of the Spartan Euagoras, or those of the Corinthian Pheidolas and his sons. Combined victories (equestrian and athletic) of popular figures such as Hippostratus from Croton and Eubatas from Cyrenae were also poetically reshaped. It is possible that these epigrams stood on the bases of horses’ statues, with some in a Thessalian stud.