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Print Price: $189.00

Format:
Hardback
400 pp.
17 illustrations, 135 mm x 216 mm

ISBN-13:
9780198728788

Publication date:
December 2016

Imprint: OUP UK

The Reception of the Homeric Hymns

Edited by Andrew Faulkner, Athanassios Vergados and Andreas Schwab

The Reception of the Homeric Hymns is a collection of original essays exploring the reception of the Homeric Hymns and other early hexameter poems in the literature and scholarship of the first century BC and beyond.

Although much work has been done on the Hymns over the past few decades, and despite their importance within the Western literary tradition, their influence on authors after the fourth century BC has so far received relatively little attention and there remains much to explore, particularly in the area of their reception in later Greco-Roman literature and art. This volume aims to address this gap in scholarship by discussing a variety of Latin and Greek texts and authors across the late Hellenistic, Imperial, and Late Antique periods, including studies of major Latin authors, such as Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, and Byzantine authors writing in classicizing verse.

While much of the book deals with classical reception of the Hymns, including looking beyond the textual realm to their influence on art, the editors and contributors have extended its scope to include discussion of Italian literature of the fifteenth century, German scholarship of the nineteenth century, and the English Romantic poets, demonstrating the enduring legacy of the Homeric Hymns in the literary world.

Readership : Scholars and students of Greek and Latin literature and classical reception in Italian, German, and English literature.

1. Andrew Faulkner, Andreas Schwab, Athanassios Vergados: Introduction
Narrative and Art
2. Jenny Strauss Clay: Visualizing Divinity: the Reception of the Homeric Hymns in Greek Vase Painting
Latin Literature
3. James Clauss: The Hercules and Cacus Episode in Augustan Literature: Engaging the Homeric Hymn to Hermes in Light of Callimachus' and Apollonius' Reception
4. Stephen Harrison: The Homeric Hymns and Horatian Lyric
5. John F. Miller: Ovid's Bacchic Helmsman and Homeric Hymn 7
6. Alison Keith: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite in Ovid and Augustan Literature
7. Jason Nethercut: Hercules and Apollo in Ovid's Metamorphoses
Imperial and Late Antique Literature
8. Polyxeni Strolonga: The Homeric Hymns turn into Dialogues: Lucian's Dialogues of the Gods
9. Athanassios Vergados: The Reception of the Homeric Hymns in Aelius Aristides
10. José B. Torres: The Homeric Hymns, Cornutus, and the Mythographical Stream
11. Robbert M. van den Berg: The Homeric Hymns in Late Antiquity: Proclus and the Hymn to Ares
12. Gianfranco Agosti: Praising the God(s): Homeric Hymns in Late Antiquity
Byzantine Literature
13. Christos Simelidis: On the Homeric Hymns in Byzantium
14. Andrew Faulkner: Theodoros Prodromos' Historical Poems: a Hymnic Celebration of John II Komnenos
Renaissance and Modern Literature
15. Oliver Thomas: Homeric and/or Hymns: Some Fifteenth-Century Approaches
16. M. Elisabeth Schwab: The Re-Birth of Venus: the Homeric Hymns to Aphrodite and Poliziano's Stanze
17. Nicholas Richardson: 'Those miraculous effusions of genius': the Homeric Hymns Seen through the Eyes of English Poets
18. Andreas Schwab: The Reception of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter in Romantic Heidelberg: J. H. Voss and 'the Eleusinian Document'

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Andrew Faulkner is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Athanassios Vergados is Professor of Classics at Heidelberg University. Andreas Schwab is Assistant Professor of Classics at Heidelberg University.

Making Sense - Margot Northey
The Homeric Hymns - Edited by Andrew Faulkner
The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite - Andrew Faulkner
The Homeric Hymns - Michael Crudden

Special Features

Comprises the first comprehensive study of the later reception of the Homeric Hymns from the first century BC onwards.
Considers their influence across a broad range of time periods, from late Hellenistic to the nineteeth century.
Contains contributions from an international group of established and emerging scholars.