Homeric Receptions Across Generic and Cultural Contexts

✍ Scribed by Athanasios Efstathiou, Ioanna Karamanou

• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 507
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes 37
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Ioanna Karamanou: Introduction: The Contexts of Homeric Reception

Part I: Framing
Lorna Hardwick: Homer, Repetition and Reception

Part II: Homer In Archaic Ideology
Margarita Alexandrou: Hipponax and the Odyssey: Subverting Text and Intertext
Andrej Petrovic: Archaic Funerary Epigram and Hector’s Imagined Epitymbia
Margarita Sotiriou: Performance, Poetic Identity and Intertextuality in Pindar’s Olympian 4
Chris Carey: Homer and Epic in Herodotus’ Book 7

Part III: Homeric Echoes in Philosophical and Rhetorical Discourse
Athanasios Efstathiou: Argumenta Homerica: Homer’s Reception by Aeschines
Eleni Volonaki: Homeric Values in the Epitaphios Logos
Ioannis N. Perysinakis: The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry: Plato’s Hippias Minor
Kleanthis Mantzouranis: A Philosophical Reception of Homer: Homeric Courage in Aristotle’s Discussion of ἀνδρεία
Christina-Panagiota Manolea: Homeric Echoes, Pythagorean Flavour: The Reception of Homer in Iamblichus

Part IV: Hellenistic and Later Receptions
Maria Kanellou: Ἑρμιόνην, ἣ εἶδος ἔχε χρυσέης ᾿Aφροδίτης (Od. 4.14): Praising a Female through Aphrodite – From Homer into Hellenistic Epigram
Karim Arafat: Pausanias and Homer
Maria Ypsilanti: The Reception of Homeric Vocabulary in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel: Εxamination of Themes and Formulas in Selected Passages

Part V: Latin Transformations
Helen Peraki-Kyriakidou: Trees and Plants in Poetic Emulation: From the Homeric Epic to Virgil’s Eclogues
Sophia Papaioannou: Embracing Homeric Orality in the Aeneid: Revisiting the Composition Politics of Virgil’s First Descriptio
Charilaos N. Michalopoulos: ‘tollite me, Teucri’ (Verg. Aen. 3.601): Saving Achaemenides, Saving Homer
Boris Kayachev: Scylla the Beauty and Scylla the Beast: A Homeric Allusion in the Ciris
Andreas N. Michalopoulos: Homer in Love: Homeric Reception in Propertius and Ovid

Part VI: Homeric Scholarship at the Intersection of Traditions
Robert Maltby: Homer in Servius: A Judgement on Servius as a Commentator on Virgil
Ivana Petrovic: On Finding Homer: The Impact of Homeric Scholarship on the Perception of South Slavic Οral Traditional Poetry

Part VII: Homer on the Ancient and Modern Stage
Katerina Mikellidou: Aeschylus reading Homer: The Case of the Psychagogoi
Daniel J. Jacob: Symbolic Remarriage in Homer’s Odyssey and Euripides’ Alcestis
Ioanna Karamanou: Euripides’ ‘Trojan Trilogy’ and the Reception of the Epic Tradition
Varvara Georgopoulou: Andromache’s Tragic Persona from the Ancient to the Modern Stage
Kyriaki Petrakou: Odysseus Satirical: The Merry Dealing of the Homeric Myth in Modern Greek Theatre

Part VIII: Refiguring Homer in Film and Music
Pantelis Michelakis: The Reception of Homer in Silent Film
Anastasia Bakogianni: Homeric Shadows on the Silver Screen: Epic Themes in Michael Cacoyannis’ Trilogy of Cinematic Receptions
Hara Thliveri: ‘Travelling to the Light, Aiming at the Infinite’: The Odyssey of Mikis Theodorakis

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