| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Part I. Narrative and Art -- 2. Visualizing divinity / Jenny Strauss Clay -- Part II. Latin Literature -- 3. The Hercules and Cacus Episode in Augustan Literature / James J. Clauss -- 4. The Homeric Hymns and Horatian Lyric / Stephen Harrison -- 5. Ovid's Bacchic Helmsman and Homeric Hymn 7 / John F. Miller -- 6. The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite in Ovid and Augustan Literature / Alison Keith -- 7 Hercules and Apollo in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Jason S. Nethercut -- Part III. Imperial and Late Antique Literature -- 8. The Homeric Hymns Turn into Dialogues / Polyxeni Strolonga -- 9. The Reception of the Homeric Hymns in Aelius Aristides / Athanassios Vergados -- 10. The Homeric Hymns, Cornutus, and the Mythographical Stream / José B. Torres -- 11. The Homeric Hymns in Late Antiquity / Robbert M. van den Berg -- 12. Praising the God(s) / Gianfranco Agosti -- Part IV. Byzantine Literature -- 13. On the Homeric Hymns in Byzantium / Christos Simelidis -- 14. Theodoros Prodromos' Historical Poems / Andrew Faulkner -- Part V. Renaissance and Modern Literature -- 15. Homeric and/or Hymns / Oliver Thomas -- 16. The Rebirth of Venus/ M. Elisabeth Schwab -- 17. 'Those miraculous effusions of genius' / Nicholas Richardson -- 18. The Reception of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter in Romantic Heidelberg / Andreas Schwab |
| Summary |
A collection of original essays exploring the reception of the Homeric hymns in the literature and scholarship of the first century BC and beyond, particularly texts and authors of the late Hellenistic, Imperial and Late Antique periods |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Homeric hymns -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Homeric hymns fast |
| Subject |
Gods, Greek -- Poetry
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Gods, Greek
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Poetry
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Faulkner, Andrew, 1978- editor.
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Vergados, Athanassios, editor.
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Schwab, Andreas, 1977- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191044502 |
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0191044504 |
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9780191795510 |
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0191795518 |
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