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The Homeric Hymns: Interpretative Essays Andrew Faulkner (ed.)

Published in print: 2011 Published Online: Publisher: Oxford University Press September 2011 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780199589036 eISBN: 9780191728983 acprof:oso/9780199589036.001.0001 Item type: book

This book is the first collection on the Homeric Hymns, a corpus of 33 hexameter poems celebrating gods that were probably recited at religious festivals, among other possible performance venues, and were frequently attributed in antiquity to Homer. After a general introduction to modern scholarship on the Homeric Hymns, the chapters of the first part of the book examine in detail aspects of the longer narrative poems in the collection, while those of the second part give critical attention to the shorter poems and to the collection as a whole. The contributors to the volume offer a wide range of views on questions central to our understanding of the Homeric Hymns, which have attracted much interest in recent years.

Goddesses in Love and Nympholeptic Heroes Corinne Ondine Pache

in A Moment’s Ornament: The Poetics of Nympholepsy in Ancient Greece Published in print: 2010 Published Online: Publisher: Oxford University Press January 2011 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780195339369 eISBN: 9780199867134 acprof:oso/9780195339369.003.0003 Item type: chapter

Chapter 3 returns to the literary sources and focuses on the interaction between myth and genre. After a brief examination of the different paradigms (and their possible origins) for encounters between goddesses and immortals, I analyze the encounter between Aphrodite and Anchises in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. Although we find few explicit examples of nympholepsy in Greek poetry, I argue that we find a mirror image of the cultic practice in the popular poetic motif of the goddess or nymph falling in love with a mortal man. Or, to put it the other way around, the localized religious phenomenon of nympholepsy reproduces at the cultic level the poetic narrative of the goddess falling in love with a Page 1 of 6

mortal. Hymnic poetry gives its own twist to the nympholeptic narrative by privileging etiology and the pan-Hellenic dimension of this version.

Introduction

Andrew Faulkner, Athanassios Vergados, and Andreas Schwab in The Reception of the Homeric Hymns Published in print: 2016 Published Online: Publisher: Oxford University Press December 2016 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780198728788 eISBN: 9780191795510 acprof:oso/9780198728788.003.0001 Item type: chapter

The Introduction deals with the Classical and Hellenistic reception of the Homeric Hymns, discussing a selection of references to the Hymns in Hellenistic literature (e.g. Philitas, Aratus, Apollonius Rhodius, Callimachus, and Theocritus) that have been pointed out in recent scholarship, in order to provide further context. It also introduces the reader to the various forms of reception encountered during the studies of the Homeric Hymns in this book, such as manuscript transmission, verbal parallels combined with thematic elements or motifs, forms of reception shaped by religious practices or beliefs, and the reception of the Homeric Hymns in art. Finally the five sections of the book are explained, each of which presents case studies on a period, mode, or tradition of reception of the Homeric Hymns.

The Homeric Hymns Turn into Dialogues: Lucian’s Dialogues of the Gods Polyxeni Strolonga

in The Reception of the Homeric Hymns Published in print: 2016 Published Online: Publisher: Oxford University Press December 2016 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780198728788 eISBN: 9780191795510 acprof:oso/9780198728788.003.0008 Item type: chapter

In this paper I investigate the influence of the Homeric Hymns on Lucian’s Dialogues of the Gods with a particular focus on those dialogues which seem to be based on episodes or dialogues in the four longer Homeric Hymns. I argue that Lucian crafts a hybrid genre influenced by the Homeric Hymns and describe the process of his adaptation of original material through the techniques of ‘transposition’ and ‘literalization’. By identifying common themes and stylistic features between the Hymns and the Dialogues I suggest that Lucian parodies not only the gods themselves but also the praise rhetoric that is echoed in the major Homeric Hymns. Besides this obvious case of Gattungsmischung, Page 2 of 6

Lucian’s engagement with the Hymns raises the intriguing question of how he perceived the generic affiliations of these Hymns and how he conveyed the incongruity of their representation of anthropomorphic, flawed gods.

Homeric and/or Hymns: Some Fifteenth-century Approaches Oliver Thomas

in The Reception of the Homeric Hymns Published in print: 2016 Published Online: Publisher: Oxford University Press December 2016 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780198728788 eISBN: 9780191795510 acprof:oso/9780198728788.003.0015 Item type: chapter

This article considers the reception of the Homeric Hymns in fifteenthcentury Italy. Most of the extant manuscripts date from this century, and constitute fundamental evidence for the Hymns’ reception, but they have not previously been studied in this light. The article examines in particular how manuscripts promote different reading strategies by framing the Homeric Hymns with other Homerica or with other hymns, and how their marginalia suggest such reading strategies. This is complemented by an analysis of three authors who allude to the Hymns. Michael Marullus intertwines allusions to the Homeric Hymns and to a variety of other pagan Greek hymns. Francesco Filelfo’s allusions to the Hymn to Hermes reflect on the author’s attitude to his own praise-poetry. Ianos Lascaris’ Epigram to Homer keeps the ‘hymnic’ and ‘Homerizing’ approaches in balance.

The Reception of the Homeric Hymns

Andrew Faulkner, Athanassios Vergados, and Andreas Schwab (eds) Published in print: 2016 Published Online: Publisher: Oxford University Press December 2016 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780198728788 eISBN: 9780191795510 acprof:oso/9780198728788.001.0001 Item type: book

This book explores the reception of the Homeric Hymns in literature and scholarship of the first century BC and later, with particular emphasis on Latin and Greek Imperial/Late Antique literature. With the exception of one chapter devoted to the reception of the Homeric Hymns in Greek vase painting, the essays in this book explore the reception of the Hymns in literature and scholarship of the first century BC and later: the scope of the book includes studies of Vergil, Horace, and Ovid, Greek literature of the Imperial and Late Antique period (e.g. Cornutus, Aelius Aristides, Lucian, and Proclus) and Byzantium (e.g. Theodoros Prodoromos), Italian literature of the fifteenth century (Filelfo, Marullus, Page 3 of 6

and Poliziano), German scholarship of the early nineteenth century (J. H. Voss), and the English poets Chapman, Congreve, and Shelley. This chronological focus does not seek to play down the importance of Classical and Hellenistic reception of the Homeric Hymns but rather to direct attention towards a gap in scholarship. Recent studies have investigated the early reception of the Hymns, while much work of the past thirty years has opened up our understanding of their reception in Hellenistic poetry. The contributions of this volume deal with various forms of reception, such as manuscript transmission and the rediscovery of manuscripts, verbal parallels combined with thematic elements or motifs, meaningful allusions to the Hymns in combination with other genres, forms of reception shaped by religious practices or beliefs as well as intertextual play and the reception of the Hymns in art.

The Homeric Hymns, Cornutus, and the Mythographical Stream José B. Torres

in The Reception of the Homeric Hymns Published in print: 2016 Published Online: Publisher: Oxford University Press December 2016 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780198728788 eISBN: 9780191795510 acprof:oso/9780198728788.003.0010 Item type: chapter

This study deals with the possibility that Lucius Annaeus Cornutus may have known and alluded to some major Homeric Hymns (Hymn to Demeter, Hymn to Hermes, and the fragmentary Hymn to Dionysus) in his allegorical Compendium of the Theological Traditions of the Greeks. This possibility is analysed through a close reading of the texts. It is also considered whether Cornutus’ knowledge of the Homeric Hymns derives from his direct reading of a corpus or if we should assume his knowledge of the Hymns was gained through an intermediary. Although it is not easy to find a definitive answer for this question, it must be taken into account that Cornutus’ explanations of theonyms and divine epithets bear the etymological mark of the grammarian Apollodorus of Athens and his fragmentary On the Gods: what the former may have added would be then the allegorical interpretation.

The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite in Ovid and Augustan Literature Alison Keith

in The Reception of the Homeric Hymns Published in print: 2016 Published Online: Publisher: Oxford University Press December 2016 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780198728788 eISBN: 9780191795510 acprof:oso/9780198728788.003.0006 Page 4 of 6

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This paper investigates the impact of the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite in the Latin poetry of the Augustan age and especially that of Ovid, both in the Metamorphoses and Heroides. Ovid’s repeated allusions to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, whether alone or in dynamic combination with other Homeric Hymns, suggest that he knew both the individual hymn and the collection of Homeric Hymns well. Virgilian and Horatian intertexts enrich Ovid’s allusive play with the archaic hymns. Ovid makes allusions to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite through Virgilian intertexts, which implicitly credit Virgil with a particular prominence in the transmission of the Homeric Hymns into Latin literature.

Introductory Remarks on the Early Greek and Mesopotamian Sources Christopher Metcalf

in The Gods Rich in Praise: Early Greek and Mesopotamian Religious Poetry Published in print: 2015 Published Online: May Publisher: Oxford University Press 2015 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780198723363 eISBN: 9780191790041 acprof:oso/9780198723363.003.0005 Item type: chapter

This chapter briefly reviews the early Greek sources that form the basis of the comparison with the corresponding Near Eastern material. Unlike the Sumerian, Akkadian, and Hittite texts discussed in Chapters 1– 3, early Greek religious poetry is well known and has frequently been analysed by modern scholarship. The present chapter generally follows the work of Eduard Norden and subsequent scholars, although it rejects the widely accepted distinction between ‘cult hymns’ and ‘literary (or: epic) hymns’. Based on the Homeric Hymns, Hesiod, various lyric poets, as well as passages taken from tragedy and comedy, the overview presented here describes the main formal aspects and commonplaces in early Greek religious poetry. Some comparative remarks serve to introduce the second part of the book, which is devoted to detailed casestudies on the basis of the text compiled in Chapters 1–4.

Visualizing Divinity: The Reception of the Homeric Hymns in Greek Vase Painting Jenny Strauss Clay

in The Reception of the Homeric Hymns Published in print: 2016 Published Online: Publisher: Oxford University Press December 2016 DOI: 10.1093/ ISBN: 9780198728788 eISBN: 9780191795510 acprof:oso/9780198728788.003.0002

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After dealing with some theoretical issues involving the relation between art and text and a lekythos that appears to quote from the Hymn to Hermes, I examine some Attic vases that share themes with the Homeric Hymns, including the Exekias kylix of Dionysus and the dolphins and the name vase of the Persephone Painter, and analyse their visual strategies in relation to the hymnic narratives. I then focus on various depictions of Hermes and the stolen cattle, some of which have implications for the dating of the Hymn, before ending with the playful visual jokes on two cups attributed to the Brygos Painter that oblige the viewer to search for Apollo’s stolen cattle and the thief.

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