Elite Mobility in the West

Abstract

Abstract Pindar’s patrons were located all over the Greek world, from Thessaly and Macedon to Cyrene, from Sicily and Italy to Ionia. He was particularly favoured, however, by patrons in the west. Of forty-five poems in four books of Pindaric epinikian, seventeen were commissioned for victors from what is customarily called ‘Western Greece’ or Magna Graecia (Fig. 54). Most of the epinikia for these so-called western Greeks, moreover, were composed for Sicilians—only two celebrated south Italian victories, both of Hagesidamos of Epizephyrian Lokroi (Olympian 10 and 11), a victor in boys’ boxing in 476.

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