The Reception of the Homeric Hymns - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198728786 ISBN 13: 9780198728788

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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Review

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)

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

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0198728786
• ISBN 13: 9780198728788
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: Faulkner Andrew, Vergados Athanassios, Schwab Andreas