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THE RECEPTION OF THE HOMERIC HYMNS The Reception of the Homeric Hymns Editedby ANDREW FAULKNER, ATHANASSIOS VERGADOS, AND ANDREAS SCHWAB 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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Acknowledgements This project, to explore in more detail the later reception of the Homeric Hymns, was conceived in Heidelberg in 2012, during whichtimetwoofus(A.FaulknerandA.Vergados)werefellowsof the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. We remain grateful for the support offered by this exceptional foundation and the Seminar für Klassische Philologie at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Aworkshoptodiscussallofthepapersinthevolumewasheldatthe Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg in June 2014. This gathering allowed for meaningful dialogue between the contributors and was essential to shaping the final versions of the chapters. The workshop was generously funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung. We areofcoursealsothankfultotheTrusteesofOxfordUniversityPress foragreeingtopublishthevolume. It is impossible to mention everyone who has played a role in bringingthisbooktofruition,butweshouldalsoliketoexpressour gratitude to a number of individuals for the specific help they have offered. Prof. Dr Jonas Grethlein fosters a vibrant research commu- nity in Heidelberg and has been unfailingly supportive. Ms Kate Timmers carried out additional editing of the volume and saved us from many errors. Ms Henrike Arnold undertook with great care and dedication the daunting task of compiling the indices, as well as formatting the text and bibliography. For their intellectual contributions and feedback we are particularly grateful also to Prof. DrWilliamFurley,DrVichiCiocani,DrIvanaPetrovic,DrMatthew Carter,DrAnne-FranceMorand,DrAldoTagliabue,andDrLawrence Kim. At the Press, the editor for Classics Ms Charlotte Loveridge has stewarded the publication of this book with an expert hand and our copy-editor Gillian Northcott Liles carefully read the text and offered improvements. Above all, of course, we are grateful to the contributors, whose thoughtful scholarship, collegiality, and willing- nesstoworktotightdeadlineshavemadethisvolumepossible. WewouldliketodedicatethisvolumetoDrNicholasRichardson, who has contributed to it a study on the reception of the Homeric Hymns in the English poets. His contributions to the study of Greek poetry, in particular the Homeric Hymns, have shaped vi Acknowledgements scholarshipontheHomericHymnsoverthepastfivedecades.Hehas been unstintingly generous in his support of young scholars, whom he has guided with gentleness and a profound humanity: est igitur aliquidhumilitatismiromodoquodsursumfaciatcor(Augustine,De Civ.Dei14.13). AndrewFaulkner,AthanassiosVergados, andAndreasSchwab OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,12/10/2016,SPi Table of Contents ListofFigures ix ListofAbbreviations xi ListofContributors xiii 1. Introduction 1 AndrewFaulkner,AthanassiosVergados,andAndreasSchwab Part I. Narrative and Art 2. VisualizingDivinity:TheReceptionoftheHomeric HymnsinGreekVasePainting 29 JennyStraussClay Part II. Latin Literature 3. TheHerculesandCacusEpisodeinAugustanLiterature: EngagingtheHomericHymntoHermesinLight ofCallimachus’andApollonius’Reception 55 JamesJ.Clauss 4. TheHomericHymnsandHoratianLyric 79 StephenHarrison 5. Ovid’sBacchicHelmsmanandHomericHymn7 95 JohnF.Miller 6. TheHomericHymntoAphroditeinOvidand AugustanLiterature 109 AlisonKeith 7. HerculesandApolloinOvid’sMetamorphoses 127 JasonS.Nethercut Part III. Imperial and Late Antique Literature 8. TheHomericHymnsTurnintoDialogues:Lucian’s DialoguesoftheGods 145 PolyxeniStrolonga viii TableofContents 9. TheReceptionoftheHomericHymnsinAeliusAristides 165 AthanassiosVergados 10. TheHomericHymns,Cornutus,andtheMythographical Stream 187 JoséB.Torres 11. TheHomericHymnsinLateAntiquity:Proclusand theHymntoAres 203 RobbertM.vandenBerg 12. PraisingtheGod(s):HomericHymnsinLateAntiquity 221 GianfrancoAgosti Part IV. Byzantine Literature 13. OntheHomericHymnsinByzantium 243 ChristosSimelidis 14. TheodorosProdromos’ HistoricalPoems:AHymnic CelebrationofJohnIIKomnenos 261 AndrewFaulkner Part V. Renaissance and Modern Literature 15. Homericand/orHymns:SomeFifteenth-century Approaches 277 OliverThomas 16. TheRebirthofVenus:TheHomericHymnsto AphroditeandPoliziano’sStanze 301 M.ElisabethSchwab 17. ‘Thosemiraculouseffusionsofgenius’:TheHomeric HymnsSeenthroughtheEyesofEnglishPoets 325 NicholasRichardson 18. TheReceptionoftheHomericHymntoDemeterin RomanticHeidelberg:J.H.Vossand‘the EleusinianDocument’ 345 AndreasSchwab References 367 IndexLocorum 397 IndexRerum 405 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,12/10/2016,SPi List of Figures 2.1. Red-figureLekythos,CartellinoPainter,c.470BC 31 PhotographCourtesyofSotheby’s,Inc. 2.2. Black-figureCoralRedKylix,Exekias,c.530BC 32 ©bpk/München,StaatlicheAntikensammlungen undGlyptothek 2.3a/b. Red-figureBellKrater,SideB,PersephonePainter,c.440BC 36 ©bpk/TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt 2.3c. Red-figureBellKrater,PersephonePainter,c.440BC.Detail 37 ©bpk/TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt 2.4. Black-figureWhite-groundHydria,Psiax,Athens, c.520–515BC.Provenance:Vulci(Italy).Muséedes Beaux-ArtsdelaVilledeParis,PetitPalais 40 ©StéphanePiera/PetitPalais/Roger-Viollet 2.5a. CorinthianKrater,600–575BC,MuséeduLouvreE633 42 ©bpk/RMN-GrandPalais/HervéLewandowski 2.5b. CorinthianKrater,600–575BC,MuséeduLouvreE633 42 DetaildrawingfromYalouris,N.(1953–4),‘ΕΡΜΗΣ ΒΟΥΚΛΕΨ’,AEph1953–4:172.Reproducedbykind permissionoftheArchaeologicalSocietyatAthens 2.6a/b. Black-figureSkyphos,TheseusPainter,c.500BC 43 ©MARTA4448/7030,Taranto.Suconcessionedel MinisterodeiBeniedelleAttivitàCulturaliedel Turismo—SoprintendenzaperiBeniArcheologicidellaPuglia 2.7a. CaeretanBlack-figureHydria,c.550–530BC,Musée duLouvreE702 45 ©bpk/RMN-GrandPalais/RMN-GP 2.7b. CaeretanBlack-figureHydria,c.550–530BC,Musée duLouvreE702 45 Linedrawing©AlexandreG.Mitchell,<http://www. alexmitchell.net>(alsopublishedasMitchell(2009),fig.61) 2.8. Red-figureKylix,BrygosPainter,c.490–480BC 48 ©bpk/Scala/Vatican:MuseoGregorianoEtrusco 2.9a/b. Red-figureKylix,BrygosPainter,c.490–480BC(exterior) 49 Photo:BruceM.White©2014.PrincetonUniversityArt Museum/ArtResourceNY/Scala,Florence
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