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Lyric Addresses to Ancient and New Gods

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This volume explores six lyric poems by Mesomedes, a Cretan court musician to Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, addressing Greek traditional and new gods. A new edition of the Greek texts with annotated ...
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Between 100 and 160 AD, Mesomedes, a Cretan court musician to Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, wrote several short lyric poems. This volume presents six of these texts, namely addresses, hymns and prayers to gods, Greek traditional divinities and »new« gods. Apart from a new edition of the Greek text, it also contains a fresh, annotated translation into English and Italian. Furthermore, the contributors provide essays offering diverse perspectives on these texts and their author, aiming to reveal characteristic aspects of a certain cultural and religious climate that developed in the Roman Empire from the second century AD onward.
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Price: £128.00
Pages: 321
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Imprint: Mohr Siebeck
Series: Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia
Publication Date: 07 February 2025
ISBN: 9783161540202
Format: Hardcover
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Ancient history, Religion: general, Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
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A. INTRODUCTION Sara Lanna: Introduction 1. The Author and the Historical Context 2. Proems, Hymns, Prayers: The Generic Forms of Mesomedes’ Poetry 3. Reception: Mesomedes’ Influence on the Poetry of Later Antiquity 4. Manuscript Tradition 5. Suggested Variations from Other Editions B. TEXT, TRANSLATIONS AND NOTES Text (Sara Lanna) and Translation (Richard Gordon/Sara Lanna) 1a. To the Muse 1b. To Calliope and Apollo 2. Hymn to Helios 3. Hymn to Nemesis 4. To Physis 5. To Isis 6. To the Adriatic Sea Sara Lanna and Richard L. Gordon: Notes on the Translations C. ESSAYS The Hymn: A Genre and its Development as a Mode of Expressing Religious Content (Sara Lanna) Religious Developments in the Roman Empire, c.70–170 CE (Richard Gordon) Mesomedes and the Philosophical Zeitgeist (Oliver Schelske) The Recovery of Ancient Greek Music and the Contribution of Papyrology (Egert Pöhlmann) A Mesomedes-Corpus of Late Antiquity with Musical Notation (Egert Pöhlmann) Mesomedes and the Music of the Imperial Period (Egert Pöhlmann) The Hymn of Mesomedes for Antinous (Inscription of Kourion, Mitford No. 104) (Egert Pöhlmann) Mesomedes’ Other Hymns? Controversial Proposals. Hymn to Attis (Heitsch no. 44,3) (Sara Lanna)