Description |
1 online resource (478 pages) |
Series |
Alte Geschichte |
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Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge ; Band 56 |
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Alte Geschichte (Stuttgart, Germany)
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Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge ; Bd. 56.
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Contents |
Hiero's question : an introduction / James J. Clauss, Martine Cuypers and Ahuvia Kahane -- The justice of Zeus in the Theogony? / Jenny Strauss Clay -- The gods in the narratives of the Homeric Hymns / Andrew Faulkner -- Divine perspective and the plots of Zeus in the Hesiodic Catalogue / Kirk Ormand -- Herding cats : Zeus, the other gods, and the plot of the Iliad / Jim Marks -- Poseidon in the Odyssey / Richard P. Martin -- The gods in cyclic epic / Christos Tsagalis -- Ares in the Pseudo-Hesiodic Shield / Timothy Heckenlively -- Heldenda¨mmerung anticipated : the gods in Apollonius' Argonautica / James J. Clauss -- Zeus in Aratus' Phaenomena / John Ryan -- Gods in Callimachus' Hymns / Ivana Petrovic -- Gods in fragments : Callimachus' Hecale / Massimo Giuseppetti -- Erotic battles? Love, power-politics and cosmic significance in Moschus' Europa and Eros on the run / A.D. Morrison |
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Reading Homer, writing Troy : intertextuality and narrativity of the gods and the divine in Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica / Silvio Ba¨r -- "With a little help from my (divine) friends" : double motivation and personification in Triphiodorus' Sack of Troy / Laura Miguélez-Cavero -- The huntress and the poet : Artemis in the Cynegetica -- Naming the god of metamorphosis : the ever-changing shape of the infant Dionysus in Nonnus' Dionysiaca / Domenico Accorinti -- Jesus' late Antique epiphanies : healing the blind in the Christian epics of Eudocia and Nonnus / Anna Lefteratou -- Gods and men in Colluthus' Rape of Helen / Enrico Magnelli -- The Argonautica of Orpheus as "poetic theology"? Divine hierarchies in late Antique philosophy and poetry / Oliver Schelske -- Polytheism in the Sibylline Oracles / J.L. Lightfoot -- Homer's gods and Virgil's Aeneid / Ward Briggs -- The gods in Ovid's Fasti / Fritz Graf -- From epiphanic idyll to faith-bound epyllia : Tennyson's poetic descent from Virgil to Gibbon / Edward Adams -- Modernity and the twilight of the epic gods : reading Derek Walcott and Alice Oswald / Ahuvia Kahane |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Greek poetry -- History and criticism
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Greek poetry, Hellenistic -- History and criticism
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Gods, Greek, in literature.
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Gods, Greek, in literature
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Greek poetry
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Greek poetry, Hellenistic
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Clauss, James Joseph, editor.
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Cuypers, Martine, editor.
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Kahane, Ahuvia, editor.
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ISBN |
9783515115278 |
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3515115277 |
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