Homeric Receptions Across Generic and Cultural Contexts

Published by De Gruyter 2016

Homeric Receptions Across Generic and Cultural Contexts

Edited by: Athanasios Efstathiou and Ioanna Karamanou

Volume 37 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110479799

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Athanasios Efstathiou, Ionian University, Corfu; Ioanna Karamanou, University of the Peloponnese, Nafplio, Greece.

Reviews

"[...] a fine contribution to the ever-expanding field of Homeric reception."
Jan Haywood in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.04.17

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Athanasios Efstathiou and Ioanna Karamanou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction: The Contexts of Homeric Reception Ioanna Karamanou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Framing
Homer, Repetition and Reception Lorna Hardwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Part II: Homer In Archaic Ideology
Hipponax and the Odyssey: Subverting Text and Intertext Margarita Alexandrou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Archaic Funerary Epigram and Hector’s Imagined Epitymbia Andrej Petrovic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Performance, Poetic Identity and Intertextuality in Pindar’s Olympian 4 Margarita Sotiriou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Homer and Epic in Herodotus’ Book 7 Chris Carey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Part III. Homeric Echoes in Philosophical and Rhetorical Discourse
Argumenta Homerica: Homer’s Reception by Aeschines Athanasios Efstathiou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Homeric Values in the Epitaphios Logos Eleni Volonaki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry: Plato’s Hippias Minor Ioannis N. Perysinakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
A Philosophical Reception of Homer: Homeric Courage in Aristotle’s Discussion of ἀνδρεία Kleanthis Mantzouranis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Homeric Echoes, Pythagorean Flavour: The Reception of Homer in Iamblichus Christina-Panagiota Manolea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
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 Maria Kanellou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Pausanias and Homer Karim Arafat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
The Reception of Homeric Vocabulary in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel: Εxamination of Themes and Formulas in Selected Passages Maria Ypsilanti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Part V. Latin Transformations
Trees and Plants in Poetic Emulation: From the Homeric Epic to Virgil’s Eclogues Helen Peraki-Kyriakidou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Embracing Homeric Orality in the Aeneid: Revisiting the Composition Politics of Virgil’s First Descriptio Sophia Papaioannou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
‘tollite me, Teucri’ (Verg. Aen. 3.601): Saving Achaemenides, Saving Homer Charilaos N. Michalopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Scylla the Beauty and Scylla the Beast: A Homeric Allusion in the Ciris Boris Kayachev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Homer in Love: Homeric Reception in Propertius and Ovid Andreas N. Michalopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Part VI. Homeric Scholarship at the Intersection of Traditions
Homer in Servius: A Judgement on Servius as a Commentator on Virgil Robert Maltby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
On Finding Homer: The Impact of Homeric Scholarship on the Perception of South Slavic Οral Traditional Poetry Ivana Petrovic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Part VII. Homer on the Ancient and Modern Stage
Aeschylus reading Homer: The Case of the Psychagogoi Katerina Mikellidou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Symbolic Remarriage in Homer’s Odyssey and Euripides’ Alcestis Daniel J. Jacob Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
Euripides’ ‘Trojan Trilogy’ and the Reception of the Epic Tradition Ioanna Karamanou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
Andromache’s Tragic Persona from the Ancient to the Modern Stage Varvara Georgopoulou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
Odysseus Satirical: The Merry Dealing of the Homeric Myth in Modern Greek Theatre Kyriaki Petrakou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379
Part VIII. Refiguring Homer in Film and Music
The Reception of Homer in Silent Film Pantelis Michelakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
Homeric Shadows on the Silver Screen: Epic Themes in Michael Cacoyannis’ Trilogy of Cinematic Receptions Anastasia Bakogianni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	405
‘Travelling to the Light, Aiming at the Infinite’: The Odyssey of Mikis Theodorakis Hara Thliveri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	475
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
Index of Homeric Passages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	491

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of classics, classical reception, cultural studies, performing arts, theatre studies, film studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 495
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
Keywords: Homer; reception studies; ancient Greek literature; performing arts

eBook

Published: July 11, 2016
ISBN: 9783110479799

Hardcover

Published: July 11, 2016
ISBN: 9783110477832

Paperback

Published: June 11, 2018
ISBN: 9783110611724