The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry From the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity and Beyond
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James J. Clauss, Martine Cuypers, Ahuvia Kahane
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The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry From the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity and Beyond
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Franz Steiner Verlag
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9783515115278
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Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge
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CHF 72.20
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Altertum
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English
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458
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This e-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.
CONTENTS
6
PREFACE
9
CONTRIBUTORS
10
ABBREVIATIONS
15
HIERO’S QUESTION: AN INTRODUCTION
16
ARCHAIC POETRY
34
THE JUSTICE OF ZEUS IN THE THEOGONY ?
36
THE GODS IN THE NARRATIVES OF THE HOMERIC HYMNS
47
DIVINE PERSPECTIVE AND THE PLOTS OF ZEUS IN THE HESIODIC CATALOGUE
58
HERDING CATS: ZEUS, THE OTHER GODS, AND THE PLOT OF THE ILIAD
75
POSEIDON IN THE ODYSSEY
91
THE GODS IN CYCLIC EPIC
110
ARES IN THE PSEUDO-HESIODIC SHIELD
133
HELLENISTIC POETRY
148
HELDENDÄMMERUNG ANTICIPATED: THE GODS IN APOLLONIUS’ ARGONAUTICA
150
ZEUS IN ARATUS’ PHAENOMENA
167
GODS IN CALLIMACHUS’ HYMNS
179
GODS IN FRAGMENTS: CALLIMACHUS’ HECALE
195
EROTIC BATTLES? LOVE, POWER-POLITICS AND COSMIC SIGNIFICANCE IN MOSCHUS’ EUROPA AND EROS ON THE RUN
212
IMPERIAL AND LATE ANTIQUE POETRY
228
READING HOMER, WRITING TROY: INTERTEXTUALITY AND NARRATIVITY OF THE GODS AND THE DIVINE IN QUINTUS OF SMYRNA’S POSTHOMERICA
230
‘WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY (DIVINE) FRIENDS’: DOUBLE MOTIVATION AND PERSONIFICATION IN TRIPHIODORUS’ SACK OF TROY
246
THE HUNTRESS AND THE POET: ARTEMIS IN THE CYNEGETICA
258
NAMING THE GOD OF METAMORPHOSIS: THE EVER-CHANGING SHAPE OF THE INFANT DIONYSUS IN NONNUS’ DIONYSIACA
271
JESUS’ LATE ANTIQUE EPIPHANIES: HEALING THE BLIND IN THE CHRISTIAN EPICS OF EUDOCIA AND NONNUS
283
GODS AND MEN IN COLLUTHUS’ RAPE OF HELEN
303
THE ARGONAUTICA OF ORPHEUS AS ‘POETIC THEOLOGY’? DIVINE HIERARCHIES IN LATE ANTIQUE POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY
313
POLYTHEISM IN THE SIBYLLINE ORACLES
324
BEYOND THE GREEKS
352
HOMER’S GODS AND VIRGIL’S AENEID
354
THE GODS IN OVID’S FASTI
368
FROM EPIPHANIC IDYLL TO FAITH-BOUND EPYLLIA: TENNYSON’S POETIC DESCENT FROM VIRGIL TO GIBBON
382
MODERNITY AND THE TWILIGHT OF THE EPIC GODS: READING DEREK WALCOTT AND ALICE OSWALD
400
BIBLIOGRAPHY
422
INDEX
458
