The Reception of the Homeric Hymns

Edited by Andrew Faulkner, Athanassios Vergados, and Andreas Schwab

Comprises the first comprehensive study of the later reception of the Homeric Hymns from the first century BC onwards
Considers their influence across a broad range of time periods, from late Hellenistic to the nineteeth century
Contains contributions from an international group of established and emerging scholars

The Reception of the Homeric Hymns

Edited by Andrew Faulkner, Athanassios Vergados, and Andreas Schwab

Description

The Reception of the Homeric Hymns is a collection of original essays exploring the reception of the Homeric Hymns and other early hexameter poems in the literature and scholarship of the first century BC and beyond.

Although much work has been done on the Hymns over the past few decades, and despite their importance within the Western literary tradition, their influence on authors after the fourth century BC has so far received relatively little attention and there remains much to explore, particularly in the area of their reception in later Greco-Roman literature and art. This volume aims to address this gap in scholarship by discussing a variety of Latin and Greek texts and authors across the late Hellenistic, Imperial, and Late Antique periods, including studies of major Latin authors, such as Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, and Byzantine authors writing in classicizing verse.

While much of the book deals with classical reception of the Hymns, including looking beyond the textual realm to their influence on art, the editors and contributors have extended its scope to include discussion of Italian literature of the fifteenth century, German scholarship of the nineteenth century, and the English Romantic poets, demonstrating the enduring legacy of the Homeric Hymns in the literary world.

The Reception of the Homeric Hymns

Edited by Andrew Faulkner, Athanassios Vergados, and Andreas Schwab

1. Introduction, Andrew Faulkner, Andreas Schwab, Athanassios Vergados
Narrative and Art
2. Visualizing Divinity: the Reception of the Homeric Hymns in Greek Vase Painting, Jenny Strauss Clay
Latin Literature
3. The Hercules and Cacus Episode in Augustan Literature: Engaging the Homeric Hymn to Hermes in Light of Callimachus' and Apollonius' Reception, James 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 Nethercut
Imperial and Late Antique Literature
8. The Homeric Hymns turn into Dialogues: Lucian's Dialogues of the Gods, Polyxeni Strolonga
9. The Reception of the Homeric Hymns in Aelius Aristides, Athanassios Vergados
10. The Homeric Hymns, Cornutus, and the Mythographical Stream, Jose B. Torres
11. The Homeric Hymns in Late Antiquity: Proclus and the Hymn to Ares, Robbert M. van den Berg
12. Praising the God(s): Homeric Hymns in Late Antiquity, Gianfranco Agosti
Byzantine Literature
13. On the Homeric Hymns in Byzantium, Christos Simelidis
14. Theodoros Prodromos' Historical Poems: a Hymnic Celebration of John II Komnenos, Andrew Faulkner
Renaissance and Modern Literature
15. Homeric and/or Hymns: Some Fifteenth-Century Approaches, Oliver Thomas
16. The Re-Birth of Venus: the Homeric Hymns to Aphrodite and Poliziano's Stanze, M. Elisabeth Schwab
17. 'Those miraculous effusions of genius': the Homeric Hymns Seen through the Eyes of English Poets, Nicholas Richardson
18. The Reception of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter in Romantic Heidelberg: J. H. Voss and 'the Eleusinian Document', Andreas Schwab

The Reception of the Homeric Hymns

Edited by Andrew Faulkner, Athanassios Vergados, and Andreas Schwab

Author Information

Andrew Faulkner is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Athanassios Vergados is Professor of Classics at Heidelberg University.

Andreas Schwab is Assistant Professor of Classics at Heidelberg University.

Contributors:

Gianfranco Agosti, Professore Aggregato of Classical Philology at Sapienza University of Rome
James J. Clauss, Professor of Classics at the University of Washington, Seattle
Andrew Faulkner, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Waterloo
Stephen Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Alison Keith, Professor of Classics and Women's Studies at the University of Toronto
John F. Miller, Arthur F. and Marian W. Stocker Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia
Jason S. Nethercut, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Classics at Knox College
Nicholas Richardson, Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford
Andreas Schwab, Assistant Professor of Classics at Heidelberg University
M. Elisabeth Schwab, PhD student and research associate for Neo-Latin Studies at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, Germany
Christos Simelidis, Lecturer in Late Antique and Byzantine Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Jenny Strauss Clay, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia
Polyxeni Strolonga, Visiting Senior Associate Member at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens
Oliver Thomas, Lecturer in Classics at the University of Nottingham
José B. Torres, Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Navarre (Spain)
Robbert M. van den Berg, Lecturer in Classics (Ancient Philosophy) at Leiden University
Athanassios Vergados, Professor of Classics at Heidelberg University

The Reception of the Homeric Hymns

Edited by Andrew Faulkner, Athanassios Vergados, and Andreas Schwab

Reviews and Awards

"Andrew Faulkner has acquired great merits for the contemporary study of the Homeric Hymns." -- Alessandro Barchiesi (NYU), ExClass

"As a whole, the volume certainly affirms the presence of the Homeric Hymns in the Classical tradition. It will be a useful resource to scholars of the Hymns themselves as well as of the individual authors and texts that receive and revive them." --Stephen Sansom, Bryn Mawr Classical Review