Homeric Receptions Across Generic and Cultural Contexts

Ioanna Karamanou: Introduction: The Contexts of Homeric Reception

Part I: Framing
Lorna Hardwick: Homer, Repetition and Reception

Part II: Homer In Archaic Ideology
Margarita Alexandrou: Hipponax and the Odyssey: Subverting Text and Intertext
Andrej Petrovic: Archaic Funerary Epigram and Hector’s Imagined Epitymbia
Margarita Sotiriou: Performance, Poetic Identity and Intertextuality in Pindar’s Olympian 4
Chris Carey: Homer and Epic in Herodotus’ Book 7

Part III: Homeric Echoes in Philosophical and Rhetorical Discourse
Athanasios Efstathiou: Argumenta Homerica: Homer’s Reception by Aeschines
Eleni Volonaki: Homeric Values in the Epitaphios Logos
Ioannis N. Perysinakis: The Ancient Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry: Plato’s Hippias Minor
Kleanthis Mantzouranis: A Philosophical Reception of Homer: Homeric Courage in Aristotle’s Discussion of ἀνδρεία
Christina-Panagiota Manolea: Homeric Echoes, Pythagorean Flavour: The Reception of Homer in Iamblichus

Part IV: Hellenistic and Later Receptions
Maria Kanellou: Ἑρμιόνην, ἣ εἶδος ἔχε χρυσέης ᾿Aφροδίτης (Od. 4.14): Praising a Female through Aphrodite – From Homer into Hellenistic Epigram
Karim Arafat: Pausanias and Homer
Maria Ypsilanti: The Reception of Homeric Vocabulary in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel: Εxamination of Themes and Formulas in Selected Passages

Part V: Latin Transformations
Helen Peraki-Kyriakidou: Trees and Plants in Poetic Emulation: From the Homeric Epic to Virgil’s Eclogues
Sophia Papaioannou: Embracing Homeric Orality in the Aeneid: Revisiting the Composition Politics of Virgil’s First Descriptio
Charilaos N. Michalopoulos: ‘tollite me, Teucri’ (Verg. Aen. 3.601): Saving Achaemenides, Saving Homer
Boris Kayachev: Scylla the Beauty and Scylla the Beast: A Homeric Allusion in the Ciris
Andreas N. Michalopoulos: Homer in Love: Homeric Reception in Propertius and Ovid

Part VI: Homeric Scholarship at the Intersection of Traditions
Robert Maltby: Homer in Servius: A Judgement on Servius as a Commentator on Virgil
Ivana Petrovic: On Finding Homer: The Impact of Homeric Scholarship on the Perception of South Slavic Οral Traditional Poetry

Part VII: Homer on the Ancient and Modern Stage
Katerina Mikellidou: Aeschylus reading Homer: The Case of the Psychagogoi
Daniel J. Jacob: Symbolic Remarriage in Homer’s Odyssey and Euripides’ Alcestis
Ioanna Karamanou: Euripides’ ‘Trojan Trilogy’ and the Reception of the Epic Tradition
Varvara Georgopoulou: Andromache’s Tragic Persona from the Ancient to the Modern Stage
Kyriaki Petrakou: Odysseus Satirical: The Merry Dealing of the Homeric Myth in Modern Greek Theatre

Part VIII: Refiguring Homer in Film and Music
Pantelis Michelakis: The Reception of Homer in Silent Film
Anastasia Bakogianni: Homeric Shadows on the Silver Screen: Epic Themes in Michael Cacoyannis’ Trilogy of Cinematic Receptions
Hara Thliveri: ‘Travelling to the Light, Aiming at the Infinite’: The Odyssey of Mikis Theodorakis