A pólis e o tirano: a representação de Hierão de Siracusa nos epinícios de Píndaro

Ricardo Tieri de Brito

Authors

Ricardo Tieri de Brito Universidade de São Paulo (USP) Author https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8918-048X

Keywords:

Ancient Tyranny, Epinician Poetry, Pindar, Hieron of Syracuse, Deinomenids

Abstract

This article examines the representation of tyranny in Pindar's epinician odes honoring victors from Greek Sicily, with a focus on the Deinomenid tyranny of Syracuse. Hieron, the second member of the dynasty to govern the polis, was the most prolific of Pindar's laudandi, commissioning four odes for himself (O. 1 and P. 1-3) and three for close associates (O. 6 and N. 1 and 9). This enables a comprehensive analysis of the techniques Pindar employed in constructing the praise of the tyrant, who is equated with traditional monarchs of hexametric poetry. The analysis of the epinicians directly related to Hieron is preceded by a theoretical discussion on tyranny in archaic Greece through the lens of Max Weber's sociological theory. Charismatic leaders, the tyrants, employed the heroic representation in the epinicians to project an “excess of aretḗ” that would legitimize their position at the head of the regime. When contrasted with other examples in Pindar's corpus, such as the epinicians for victors from Acragas, Kamarina, Cyrene, and Aegina, the Syracusan odes exhibit notable particularities, including the central role of the laudandus, whose praise subordinates and absorbs that of the polis and the victor's family, traditional topoi of the epinician genre.

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Author Biography

Ricardo Tieri de Brito, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

M.A. student at the Graduate Program in Classics at DLCV/FFLCH, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. LL.B, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2013. B.A. in Classics, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2022. Research interests: Archaic Greek Poetry, Pindar, Epinikion, Late-Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily, Ancient Tyranny, Greek Identities in Ancient Mediterranean.

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