Gods and religion in Hellenistic poetry
By: edited by M.A. Harder, R.F. Regtuit, G.C. Wakker
Contributors: Harder, Annette, editor; Regtuit, R. F. (Remco F.), editor; Wakker, G. C., editor
Series: Hellenistica groningana -- 16; Hellenistica Groningana -- v. 16.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leuven; Walpole, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9789042924840
Subjects: Goddesses in literature; Congresses; Gods in literature; Mythology, Greek, in literature; Hellenistic Greek poetry; History and criticism; Religion in literature
Description: This volume contains the papers of the 'Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry 9: Gods and Religion in Hellenistic Poetry' (Groningen 2008). During the workshop a first draft of the papers was commented on by an international group of specialists in the field of Hellenistic poetry. Following developments in recent research, where the study of ancient religion is flourishing, the articles in this volume explore the ways in which Hellenistic poets deal with issues relating to gods and religion. Some themes have been selected for special treatment. Thus some articles focus on the way in which Hellenistic poets inscribe the old gods in their poetry and give them a new role and meaning: they discuss, for instance, the role of Aphrodite, who is prominent in Hellenistic epigram, or the role of Zeus, who is portrayed as a model and example for the Ptolemies and thus adds an extra dimension to the first hymn of Callimachus.
Notes: 'This volume contains the papers of the 'Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry 9 : Gods and Religion' (Groningen 2008)--P. [4] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

In English; includes 2 contributions in German and 1 in French; occasional phrases in Ancient Greek with translations.
Table of contents: title: Rôle et représentation des dieux traditionnels dans l'Alexandra de Lycophron  -- Christophe Cusset et Antje Kolde; title: Aphroditē gymnē kai enoplos :; title: perspectives on the goddess sitting on a multicoloured throne, gained from Hellenistic epigrams  -- Beate Hintzen; title: Boubrôstis, meat eating and comedy :; title: Erysichthon as famine demon in Callimachus' Hymn to Demeter  -- Christopher A. Faraone; title: Morality and divine agency in Hellenistic metamorphosis poetry  -- K.F.B. Fletcher; title: Two poets for a goddess :; title: Callimachus' and Philicus' Hymns to Demeter  -- Massimo Giuseppetti; title: Hero cult in Apollonius Rhodius  -- Sarah Hitch; title: Die sakrale Geographie :; title: Zu einigen passagen des Apollonios Rhodios in der Bearbeitung des Dionysios Periegetes  -- Ekaterina V. Ilyushechkina; title: Nothing to do with Zeus? :; title: the old and the new in Callimachus' first hymn  -- Alexander Kirichenko; title: Satire and religion in Hellenistic poetry  -- Robert Kirstein; title: Rewriting the gods :; title: religious ritual, human resourcefulness, and divine interaction in the Argonautica  -- Suzanne Lye; title: The debt towards Aphrodite :; title: female dedicators and their interrelations with the goddess in votive epigrams of the Greek anthology  -- Charikleia Natsina; title: Callimachus' Hymn to Apollo and Greek metrical sacred regulations  -- Ivana Petrovic; title: "To keep silent is a small virtue" :; title: Hellenistic poetry and the Samothracian mysteries  -- Chad Matthew Schroeder; title: Göttliches Wirken und menschliche Freiheit bei Homer und Apollonios Rhodios  -- Katrin Stöppelkamp; title: Two marginal goddesses :; title: Rhea and Hekate in Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica -- Emilia Żybert.