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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    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.
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    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.
    ISBN
    • 9783515115230 ((pbk.))
    • 3515115234 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2017377278
    OCLC
    959227058
    International Article Number
    • 9783515115230
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