Clauss / Cuypers / Kahane The Gods of Greek Hexameter Poetry

From the Archaic Age to Late Antiquity and Beyond
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-515-11527-8
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band 56, 458 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clauss, James J.

Cuypers, Martine

Kahane, Ahuvia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;CONTENTS;6
2;PREFACE;9
3;CONTRIBUTORS;10
4;ABBREVIATIONS;15
5;HIERO’S QUESTION: AN INTRODUCTION;16
6;ARCHAIC POETRY;34
6.1;THE JUSTICE OF ZEUS IN THE THEOGONY ?;36
6.2;THE GODS IN THE NARRATIVES OF THE HOMERIC HYMNS;47
6.3;DIVINE PERSPECTIVE AND THE PLOTS OF ZEUS IN THE HESIODIC CATALOGUE;58
6.4;HERDING CATS: ZEUS, THE OTHER GODS, AND THE PLOT OF THE ILIAD;75
6.5;POSEIDON IN THE ODYSSEY;91
6.6;THE GODS IN CYCLIC EPIC;110
6.7;ARES IN THE PSEUDO-HESIODIC SHIELD;133
7;HELLENISTIC POETRY;148
7.1;HELDENDÄMMERUNG ANTICIPATED: THE GODS IN APOLLONIUS’ ARGONAUTICA;150
7.2;ZEUS IN ARATUS’ PHAENOMENA;167
7.3;GODS IN CALLIMACHUS’ HYMNS;179
7.4;GODS IN FRAGMENTS: CALLIMACHUS’ HECALE;195
7.5;EROTIC BATTLES? LOVE, POWER-POLITICS AND COSMIC SIGNIFICANCE IN MOSCHUS’ EUROPA AND EROS ON THE RUN;212
8;IMPERIAL AND LATE ANTIQUE POETRY;228
8.1;READING HOMER, WRITING TROY: INTERTEXTUALITY AND NARRATIVITY OF THE GODS AND THE DIVINE IN QUINTUS OF SMYRNA’S POSTHOMERICA;230
8.2;‘WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY (DIVINE) FRIENDS’: DOUBLE MOTIVATION AND PERSONIFICATION IN TRIPHIODORUS’ SACK OF TROY;246
8.3;THE HUNTRESS AND THE POET: ARTEMIS IN THE CYNEGETICA;258
8.4;NAMING THE GOD OF METAMORPHOSIS: THE EVER-CHANGING SHAPE OF THE INFANT DIONYSUS IN NONNUS’ DIONYSIACA;271
8.5;JESUS’ LATE ANTIQUE EPIPHANIES: HEALING THE BLIND IN THE CHRISTIAN EPICS OF EUDOCIA AND NONNUS;283
8.6;GODS AND MEN IN COLLUTHUS’ RAPE OF HELEN;303
8.7;THE ARGONAUTICA OF ORPHEUS AS ‘POETIC THEOLOGY’? DIVINE HIERARCHIES IN LATE ANTIQUE POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY;313
8.8;POLYTHEISM IN THE SIBYLLINE ORACLES;324
9;BEYOND THE GREEKS;352
9.1;HOMER’S GODS AND VIRGIL’S AENEID;354
9.2;THE GODS IN OVID’S FASTI;368
9.3;FROM EPIPHANIC IDYLL TO FAITH-BOUND EPYLLIA: TENNYSON’S POETIC DESCENT FROM VIRGIL TO GIBBON;382
9.4;MODERNITY AND THE TWILIGHT OF THE EPIC GODS: READING DEREK WALCOTT AND ALICE OSWALD;400
10;BIBLIOGRAPHY;422
11;INDEX;458

Über Autor(innen)

Kahane, Ahuvia
Ahuvia Kahane is Professor of Greek at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Clauss, James J.
James J. Clauss is Professor of Classics at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Cuypers, Martine
Martine Cuypers is Lecturer in Greek at Trinity College Dublin.