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    • Horse and Herald: Posidippus' Equestrian Angelia 

      Miller, Peter J (University of Toronto Press, 2019)
      Posidippus’ epigrams for equestrian victors (the Hippika, AB 71–88) build on epinician convention by maintaining the central role of the herald’s proclamation— the angelia—in the representation of athletic achievement. In ...

    • Proclaiming Arkadians: A Case Study in Social Identity and the Olympic Games 

      Miller, Peter J. (Weidmann, 2022)
      This paper analyzes the role of social and political identity in two Arkadian epigrams from Classical Olympia. By examining these epigrams in light of contemporary so-ciology and as complex literary texts in their own ...

    • A Sympotic Self: Instruction through Inebriation in Anacreon 

      Miller, Peter J. (Mouseion, 2018-03)
      As early as the fifth century, Anacreon was the poet of wine, love, and song; even his death—choking on a pip—is attributed to the grape. The fact that the symposion looms large in the extant fragments is, therefore, ...