Homeric receptions across generic and cultural contexts / edited by Athanasios Efstathiou and Ioanna Karamanou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Efstathiou, Athanasios, editor.

Karamanou, Ioanna, editor.

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 37.

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; volume 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer--Criticism and interpretation.

Homer.

Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Reader-response criticism.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 495 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This volume provides a fresh perspective on Homeric reception through a methodologically focused, interdisciplinary investigation of the transformations of Homeric epic within varying generic and cultural contexts. It brings together leading international scholars and acute young researchers, exploring how various aspects of Homeric poetics can be mapped on to a diversity of contexts under different historical, literary and artistic conditions. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Framing

Homer, Repetition and Reception / Lorna Hardwick Hardwick, Lorna 15

Part II Homer In Archaic Ideology

Hipponax and the Odyssey: Subverting Text and Intertext / Margarita Alexandrou Alexandrou, Margarita 31

Archaic Funerary Epigram and Hector's Imagined Epitymbia / Andrej Petrovic Petrovic, Andrej 45

Performance, Poetic identity and intertextuality in Pindar's Olympian 4 / Margarita Sotiriou Sotiriou, Margarita 59

Homer and Epic in Herodotus' Book 7 / Chris Carey Carey, Chris 71

Part III Homeric Echoes in Philosophical and Rhetorical Discourse

Argumenta Homerica: Homer's Reception by Aeschines / Athanasios Efstathiou Efstathiou, Athanasios 93

Homeric Values in the Epitaphios Logos / Eleni Volonaki Volonaki, Eleni 125

The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry: Plato's Hippias Minor / Ioannis N. Perysinakis Perysinakis, Ioannis N. 147

A Philosophical Reception of Homer: Homeric Courage in Aristotle's Discussion of ανορεια / Kleanthis Mantzouranis Mantzouranis, Kleanthis 163

Homeric Echoes, Pythagorean Flavour: The Reception of Homer in lamblichus / Christina-Panagiota Manolea Manolea, Christina-Panagiota 175

Part IV Hellenistic and Later Receptions

'Ερμιονην, η ειοοζ εχε Χρυσεηζ 'Αφροοιτηζς(Od. 4.14): Praising a Female through Aphrodite - From Homer into Hellenistic Epigram / Maria Kanellou Kanellou, Maria 189

Pausanias and Homer / Karim Arafat Arafat, Karim 205

The Reception of Homeric Vocabulary in Nonnus' Paraphrase of St. John's Gospel: Examination of Themes and Formulas in Selected Passages / Maria Ypsilanti Ypsilanti, Maria 215

Part V Latin Transformations

Trees and Plants in Poetic Emulation: From the Homeric Epic to Virgil's Eclogues / Helen Peraki-Kyriakidou Peraki-Kyriakidou, Helen 227

Embracing Homeric Orality in the Aeneid: Revisiting the Composition Politics of Virgil's First Descriptio / Sophia Papaioannou Papaioannou, Sophia 249

'Tollite me, Teucri' (Verg. Aen. 3.601): Saving Achaemenides, Saving Homer / Charilaos N. Michalopoulos Michalopoulos, Charilaos N. 263

Scylla the Beauty and Scylla the Beast: A Homeric Allusion in the Ciris / Boris Kayachev Kayachev, Boris 277

Homer in Love: Homeric Reception in Propertius and Ovid / Andreas N. Michalopoulos Michalopoulos, Andreas N. 289

Part VI Homeric Scholarship at the Intersection of Traditions

Homer in Servius: A Judgement on Servius as a Commentator on Virgil / Robert Maltby Maltby, Robert 303

On Finding Homer: The Impact of Homeric Scholarship on the Perception of South Slavic Oral Traditional Poetry / Ivana Petrovic Petrovic, Ivana 315

Part VII Homer on the Ancient and Modern Stage

Aeschylus reading Homer: The Case of the Psychagogoi / Katerina Mikellidou Mikellidou, Katerina 331

Symbolic Remarriage in Homer's Odyssey and Euripides' Alcestis / Daniel J. Jacob Jacob, Daniel J. 343

Euripides' 'Trojan Trilogy' and the Reception of the Epic Tradition / Ioanna Karamanou Karamanou, Ioanna 355

Andromache's Tragic Persona from the Ancient to the Modern Stage / Varvara Georgopoulou Georgopoulou, Varvara 369

Odysseus Satirical: The Merry Dealing of the Homeric Myth in Modern Greek Theatre / Kyriaki Petrakou Petrakou, Kyriaki 379

Part VIII Refiguring Homer in Film and Music

The Reception of Homer in Silent Film / Pantelis Michelakis Michelakis, Pantelis 393

Homeric Shadows on the Silver Screen: Epic Themes in Michael Cacoyannis' Trilogy of Cinematic Receptions / Anastasia Bakogianni Bakogianni, Anastasia 405

'Travelling to the Light, Aiming at the Infinite': The Odyssey of Mikis Theodorakis / Hara Thliveri Thliveri, Hara 417.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

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Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.

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Print version: Homeric receptions across generic and cultural contexts.

ISBN:

9783110479799

3110479796

9783110479188

3110479184

Publisher Number:

99969241861

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