Table of Contents
Preface v
Introduction: The Contexts of Homeric Reception Ioanna Karamanou 1
Part I Framing
Homer, Repetition and Reception Lorna Hardwick 15
Part II Homer In Archaic Ideology
Hipponax and the Odyssey: Subverting Text and Intertext Margarita Alexandrou 31
Archaic Funerary Epigram and Hector's Imagined Epitymbia Andrej Petrovic 45
Performance, Poetic identity and intertextuality in Pindar's Olympian 4 Margarita Sotiriou 59
Homer and Epic in Herodotus' Book 7 Chris Carey 71
Part III Homeric Echoes in Philosophical and Rhetorical Discourse
Argumenta Homerica: Homer's Reception by Aeschines Athanasios Efstathiou 93
Homeric Values in the Epitaphios Logos Eleni Volonaki 125
The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry: Plato's Hippias Minor Ioannis N. Perysinakis 147
A Philosophical Reception of Homer: Homeric Courage in Aristotle's Discussion of ανορεια Kleanthis Mantzouranis 163
Homeric Echoes, Pythagorean Flavour: The Reception of Homer in lamblichus Christina-Panagiota Manolea 175
Part IV Hellenistic and Later Receptions
'Ερμιονην, η ειοοζ εχε Χρυσεηζ 'Αφροοιτηζς(Od. 4.14): Praising a Female through Aphrodite - From Homer into Hellenistic Epigram Maria Kanellou 189
Pausanias and Homer Karim Arafat 205
The Reception of Homeric Vocabulary in Nonnus' Paraphrase of St. John's Gospel: Examination of Themes and Formulas in Selected Passages Maria Ypsilanti 215
Part V Latin Transformations
Trees and Plants in Poetic Emulation: From the Homeric Epic to Virgil's Eclogues Helen Peraki-Kyriakidou 227
Embracing Homeric Orality in the Aeneid: Revisiting the Composition Politics of Virgil's First Descriptio Sophia Papaioannou 249
'Tollite me, Teucri' (Verg. Aen. 3.601): Saving Achaemenides, Saving Homer Charilaos N. Michalopoulos 263
Scylla the Beauty and Scylla the Beast: A Homeric Allusion in the Ciris Boris Kayachev 277
Homer in Love: Homeric Reception in Propertius and Ovid Andreas N. Michalopoulos 289
Part VI Homeric Scholarship at the Intersection of Traditions
Homer in Servius: A Judgement on Servius as a Commentator on Virgil Robert Maltby 303
On Finding Homer: The Impact of Homeric Scholarship on the Perception of South Slavic Oral Traditional Poetry Ivana Petrovic 315
Part VII Homer on the Ancient and Modern Stage
Aeschylus reading Homer: The Case of the Psychagogoi Katerina Mikellidou 331
Symbolic Remarriage in Homer's Odyssey and Euripides' Alcestis Daniel J. Jacob 343
Euripides' 'Trojan Trilogy' and the Reception of the Epic Tradition Ioanna Karamanou 355
Andromache's Tragic Persona from the Ancient to the Modern Stage Varvara Georgopoulou 369
Odysseus Satirical: The Merry Dealing of the Homeric Myth in Modern Greek Theatre Kyriaki Petrakou 379
Part VIII Refiguring Homer in Film and Music
The Reception of Homer in Silent Film Pantelis Michelakis 393
Homeric Shadows on the Silver Screen: Epic Themes in Michael Cacoyannis' Trilogy of Cinematic Receptions Anastasia Bakogianni 405
'Travelling to the Light, Aiming at the Infinite': The Odyssey of Mikis Theodorakis Hara Thliveri 417
Bibliography 435
Notes on Contributors 475
General Index 481
Index of Homeric Passages 491
