Homeric receptions across generic and cultural contexts [online] / ed. Athanasios Efstathiou, Ioanna Karamanou

Frontmatter 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 ἀνδρεία 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: Εxamination 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 oral 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

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