Peter J. Miller

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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
From oikos to polis: Ideology and Genealogy in Pindar's Olympian 9

Miller, Peter John (Syllecta Classica, 2015)

In Olympian 9, Pindar constructs a family for his victor, Epharmostos, whose family does not—contrary to the generic expectations of epinikian—appear in the ode. By establishing connections between the early ethnic and ...
Destabilizing Haemon: Radically Reading Gender and Authority in Sophocles' Antigone

Miller, Peter (Helios (Texas Tech University Press), 2014)