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Author:   Andrew Faulkner (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo) ,  Athanassios Vergados (Professor, Professor, Heidelberg University) ,  Andreas Schwab (Visiting Professor for Ancient Greek Literature and Religious Studies of Antiquity, Assistant Professor, Heidelberg University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.628kg
ISBN:  

9780198728788

ISBN 10:   0198728786
Pages:   424
Publication Date:   24 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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'

Reviews

As a whole, the volume certainly affirms the presence of the Homeric Hymns in the Classical tradition. It will be a useful resource to scholars of the Hymns themselves as well as of the individual authors and texts that receive and revive them. --Stephen Sansom, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Author Information

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.

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