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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Efstathiou, Athanasios, editor.

Karamanou, Ioanna, editor.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; Volume 37.

Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 1868-4785 ; Volume 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homer--Criticism and interpretation.

Homer.

Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (506 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This collective 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 explores how various aspects of Homeric poetics appeal and can be mapped on to a diversity of contexts under different socio-historical, intellectual, literary and artistic conditions. The volume brings together internationally acclaimed scholars and acute young researchers in the fields of classics and reception studies, yielding insight into the varied strategies and ideological forces that define Homeric reception in literature, scholarship and the performing arts (theatre, film and music) and shape the ‘horizon of expectations’ of readers and audience. This collection also showcases that the wide-ranging ‘migration’ of Homeric material through time and across place holds significant cultural power, being instrumental in the construction of new cultural identities. The volume is of particular interest to scholars in the fields of classics, reception and cultural studies and the performing arts, as well as to readers fascinated by ancient literature and its cultural transformations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Contexts of Homeric Reception

Homer, Repetition and Reception

Hipponax and the Odyssey: Subverting Text and Intertext

Archaic Funerary Epigram and Hector’s Imagined Epitymbia

Performance, Poetic Identity and Intertextuality in Pindar’s Olympian 4

Homer and Epic in Herodotus’ Book 7

Argumenta Homerica: Homer’s Reception by Aeschines

Homeric Values in the Epitaphios Logos

The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry: Plato’s Hippias Minor

A Philosophical Reception of Homer: Homeric Courage in Aristotle’s Discussion of ἀνδρεία

Homeric Echoes, Pythagorean Flavour: The Reception of Homer in Iamblichus

Ἑρμιόνην, ἣ εἶδος ἔχε χρυσέης ᾿Aφροδίτης (Od. 4.14): Praising a Female through Aphrodite – From Homer into Hellenistic Epigram

Pausanias and Homer

The Reception of Homeric Vocabulary in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel: Εxamination of Themes and Formulas in Selected Passages

Trees and Plants in Poetic Emulation: From the Homeric Epic to Virgil’s Eclogues

Embracing Homeric Orality in the Aeneid: Revisiting the Composition Politics of Virgil’s First Descriptio

‘tollite me, Teucri’ (Verg. Aen. 3.601): Saving Achaemenides, Saving Homer

Scylla the Beauty and Scylla the Beast: A Homeric Allusion in the Ciris

Homer in Love: Homeric Reception in Propertius and Ovid

Homer in Servius: A Judgement on Servius as a Commentator on Virgil

On Finding Homer: The Impact of Homeric Scholarship on the Perception of South Slavic Οral Traditional Poetry

Aeschylus reading Homer: The Case of the Psychagogoi

Symbolic Remarriage in Homer’s Odyssey and Euripides’ Alcestis

Euripides’ ‘Trojan Trilogy’ and the Reception of the Epic Tradition

Andromache’s Tragic Persona from the Ancient to the Modern Stage

Odysseus Satirical: The Merry Dealing of the Homeric Myth in Modern Greek Theatre

The Reception of Homer in Silent Film

Homeric Shadows on the Silver Screen: Epic Themes in Michael Cacoyannis’ Trilogy of Cinematic Receptions

‘Travelling to the Light, Aiming at the Infinite’: The Odyssey of Mikis Theodorakis

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

General Index

Index of Homeric Passages

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resouce; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 27, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110479188

3110479184

9783110479799

3110479796

OCLC:

954046803