Homeric Receptions Across Generic and Cultural Contexts

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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. Preface Table of contents Introduction: The Contexts of Homeric Reception Part I. Framing Homer, Repetition and Reception Part II: Homer In Archaic Ideology 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 Part III. Homeric Echoes in Philosophical and Rhetorical Discourse 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 ??d?e?a Homeric Echoes, Pythagorean Flavour: The Reception of Homer in Iamblichus Part IV. Hellenistic and Later Receptions 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: ?xamination of Themes and Formulas in Selected Passages Part V. Latin Transformations 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 Part VI. Homeric Scholarship at the Intersection of Traditions 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 ?ral Traditional Poetry Part VII. Homer on the Ancient and Modern Stage 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 Part VIII. Refiguring Homer in Film and Music 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