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The Gods of Greek hexameter poetry : from the archaic age to late Antiquity and beyond / edited by James J. Clauss, Martine Cuypers and Ahuvia Kahane.
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English
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Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2016].
©2016
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xiii, 458 pages ; 25 cm.
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Firestone Library - Classics Collection
PA3015.G6 G63 2016
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Greek poetry
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History and criticism
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Greek poetry, Hellenistic
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History and criticism
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Gods, Greek, in literature
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Editor
Clauss, James Joseph
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Cuypers, Martine
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Kahane, Ahuvia
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Series
Alte Geschichte (Stuttgart, Germany)
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Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge ; Bd. 56.
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Alte Geschichte
Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge ; Band 56
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Summary note
This book explores the representation of the gods in Greek hexameter poetry in its many forms, including epic, hymnic and didactic poetry, from the archaic period to late antiquity. Its twenty-five chapters, written by an international team of experts, trace a broad historical arc, reflecting developments in religious thought and practice, and ongoing philosophical and literary-critical engagement with the nature and representation of the divine and the relationship between humans and gods. They proceed from the poems ascribed to Hesiod and Homer and the so-called Cyclic epics, via the Hellenistic poets Apollonius, Callimachus, Aratus and Moschus, to the poets and poems of the third to sixth centuries CE, including Quintus of Smyrna, Triphiodorus, the Cynegetica, Nonnus, Eudocia, Colluthus, the Argonautica of Orpheus and the Sibylline Oracles. An epilogue explores the reception of the Greek "epic" gods by the Roman poets Virgil and Ovid, and by the English poets Tennyson, Walcott and Oswald. -- Amazon.com.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-442) and index.
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
Heldendämmerung 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 --
Reading Homer, writing Troy : intertextuality and narrativity of the gods and the divine in Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica / Silvio Bär
"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.
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ISBN
9783515115230 ((pbk.))
3515115234 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2017377278
OCLC
959227058
International Article Number
9783515115230
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