Tróia Egineta, ou a apropriação cosmopolita de um mito heroico

Abstract

This paper focuses on the cultural relations, both poetic and iconographic, between Bacchylides and Aegina. Working mostly upon Bacchylides’ thirteenth epinician ode, I analyse the intersemiotic treatment of the myth of the Aeacids that fought in both the Trojan campaigns, while trying to understand how poetry and the plastic arts retained a complementary relationship, necessary to achieve the encomium of the athlete and his homeland along the symbolic path from polis to cosmopolis.