Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury
Herausgeber: Miller, John F; Clay, Jenny Strauss
Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury
Herausgeber: Miller, John F; Clay, Jenny Strauss
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Of all the divinities of classical antiquity, the Greek Hermes (Mercury in his Roman alter ego) is the most versatile and enigmatic. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, this volume offers an overview of the myriad aspects of this elusive figure, tracking the god's footprints across the many domains in which he partakes.
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Of all the divinities of classical antiquity, the Greek Hermes (Mercury in his Roman alter ego) is the most versatile and enigmatic. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, this volume offers an overview of the myriad aspects of this elusive figure, tracking the god's footprints across the many domains in which he partakes.
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- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 404
- Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 30mm
- Gewicht: 866g
- ISBN-13: 9780198777342
- ISBN-10: 0198777345
- Artikelnr.: 54026062
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Seitenzahl: 404
- Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2019
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 30mm
- Gewicht: 866g
- ISBN-13: 9780198777342
- ISBN-10: 0198777345
- Artikelnr.: 54026062
John F. Miller is Arthur F. and Marian W. Stocker Professor of Classics at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1984 and served as chair of the Department of Classics from 1999 to 2014. He is the author of Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets (CUP, 2009), which was awarded the Charles Goodwin Award of Merit by the American Philological Association, and Ovid's Elegiac Festivals: Studies in the 'Fasti' (Peter Lang, 1991), and is also the co-editor of four collaborative volumes on Greek and Roman literature and culture. From 1991 until 1998 he was the Editor of Classical Journal. Jenny Strauss Clay is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Classics Emerita at the University of Virginia, where she taught for 37 years, alongside holding visiting professorships at Duke University, the École des Hautes Etudes, Paris, and the École Normale, Lyon. She has served as the President of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South and of the American Philological Association, and is the author of The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in the Odyssey (PUP, 1983), The Politics of Olympus: Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns (PUP, 1989), Hesiod's Cosmos (CUP, 2003), and Homer's Trojan Theater: Space, Vision, and Memory in the Iliad (CUP, 2011). In 2012-13 she was awarded a Humboldt Stiftung Preis.
* Frontmatter
* List of Figures
* List of Abbreviations
* List of Contributors
* 1: Jenny Strauss Clay and John F. Miller: Introduction
* Section I. Son, Father, Brother
* 2: H. Alan Shapiro: Like Mother, Like Son? Hermes and Maia in Text
and Image
* 3: Carolyn M. Laferrière: Hermes among Pan and the Nymphs on
Fourth-Century Votive Reliefs
* 4: Jennifer Larson: Hermes and Heracles
* Section II. Trickster
* 5: Jenny Strauss Clay: Hide and Go Seek: Hermes in Homer
* 6: Andrea Capra and Cecilia Nobili: Hermes Iambicus
* Section III. Comic
* 7: Simone Beta: The God and his Double: Hermes as Character and
Speaking Statue in Greek Comedy
* 8: Erin K. Moodie: Hermes/Mercury: God of Comedy?
* Section IV. Erotic
* 9: Joseph Farrell: Hermes in Love: The Erotic Career of a Mercurial
Character
* 10: Micah Young Myers: Lascivus Puer: Cupid, Hermes, and Hymns in
Ovid's Metamorphoses
* Section V. Mediator
* 11: S. J. Harrison: Horace's Mercury and Mercurial Horace
* 12: Sergio Casali: Crossing the Borders: Vergil's Intertextual
Mercury
* Section VI. Commerce and Exchange
* 13: Duncan E. MacRae: Mercury and Materialism: Images of Mercury and
the Tabernae of Pompeii
* 14: Thomas Biggs: Did Mercury Build the Ship of Aeneas?
* Section VII. Greek Religion and Cult
* 15: Hélène Collard: Communicating with the Divine: Herms in Attic
Vase Painting
* 16: Jenny Wallensten: Hermes as Visible in Votive Inscriptions
* 17: Sandra Blakely: Hermes, Kyllene, Samothrace, and the Sea
* Section VIII. Egypt
* 18: Ljuba Merlina Bortolani: The Greek Magical Hymn to Hermes:
Syncretism or Disguise? The Hellenization of Thoth in Graeco-Egyptian
Magical Literature
* 19: Athanassios Vergados: Hermes and the Figs: On P.Oxy.17.2084
* Section IX. Cosmic
* 20: Nicola Reggiani: Rethinking Hermes: Cosmic Justice and
Proportional Distributions
* 21: Henk Versnel: Great Hermes: Three Ways towards Stardom
* Endmatter
* Index
* List of Figures
* List of Abbreviations
* List of Contributors
* 1: Jenny Strauss Clay and John F. Miller: Introduction
* Section I. Son, Father, Brother
* 2: H. Alan Shapiro: Like Mother, Like Son? Hermes and Maia in Text
and Image
* 3: Carolyn M. Laferrière: Hermes among Pan and the Nymphs on
Fourth-Century Votive Reliefs
* 4: Jennifer Larson: Hermes and Heracles
* Section II. Trickster
* 5: Jenny Strauss Clay: Hide and Go Seek: Hermes in Homer
* 6: Andrea Capra and Cecilia Nobili: Hermes Iambicus
* Section III. Comic
* 7: Simone Beta: The God and his Double: Hermes as Character and
Speaking Statue in Greek Comedy
* 8: Erin K. Moodie: Hermes/Mercury: God of Comedy?
* Section IV. Erotic
* 9: Joseph Farrell: Hermes in Love: The Erotic Career of a Mercurial
Character
* 10: Micah Young Myers: Lascivus Puer: Cupid, Hermes, and Hymns in
Ovid's Metamorphoses
* Section V. Mediator
* 11: S. J. Harrison: Horace's Mercury and Mercurial Horace
* 12: Sergio Casali: Crossing the Borders: Vergil's Intertextual
Mercury
* Section VI. Commerce and Exchange
* 13: Duncan E. MacRae: Mercury and Materialism: Images of Mercury and
the Tabernae of Pompeii
* 14: Thomas Biggs: Did Mercury Build the Ship of Aeneas?
* Section VII. Greek Religion and Cult
* 15: Hélène Collard: Communicating with the Divine: Herms in Attic
Vase Painting
* 16: Jenny Wallensten: Hermes as Visible in Votive Inscriptions
* 17: Sandra Blakely: Hermes, Kyllene, Samothrace, and the Sea
* Section VIII. Egypt
* 18: Ljuba Merlina Bortolani: The Greek Magical Hymn to Hermes:
Syncretism or Disguise? The Hellenization of Thoth in Graeco-Egyptian
Magical Literature
* 19: Athanassios Vergados: Hermes and the Figs: On P.Oxy.17.2084
* Section IX. Cosmic
* 20: Nicola Reggiani: Rethinking Hermes: Cosmic Justice and
Proportional Distributions
* 21: Henk Versnel: Great Hermes: Three Ways towards Stardom
* Endmatter
* Index
* Frontmatter
* List of Figures
* List of Abbreviations
* List of Contributors
* 1: Jenny Strauss Clay and John F. Miller: Introduction
* Section I. Son, Father, Brother
* 2: H. Alan Shapiro: Like Mother, Like Son? Hermes and Maia in Text
and Image
* 3: Carolyn M. Laferrière: Hermes among Pan and the Nymphs on
Fourth-Century Votive Reliefs
* 4: Jennifer Larson: Hermes and Heracles
* Section II. Trickster
* 5: Jenny Strauss Clay: Hide and Go Seek: Hermes in Homer
* 6: Andrea Capra and Cecilia Nobili: Hermes Iambicus
* Section III. Comic
* 7: Simone Beta: The God and his Double: Hermes as Character and
Speaking Statue in Greek Comedy
* 8: Erin K. Moodie: Hermes/Mercury: God of Comedy?
* Section IV. Erotic
* 9: Joseph Farrell: Hermes in Love: The Erotic Career of a Mercurial
Character
* 10: Micah Young Myers: Lascivus Puer: Cupid, Hermes, and Hymns in
Ovid's Metamorphoses
* Section V. Mediator
* 11: S. J. Harrison: Horace's Mercury and Mercurial Horace
* 12: Sergio Casali: Crossing the Borders: Vergil's Intertextual
Mercury
* Section VI. Commerce and Exchange
* 13: Duncan E. MacRae: Mercury and Materialism: Images of Mercury and
the Tabernae of Pompeii
* 14: Thomas Biggs: Did Mercury Build the Ship of Aeneas?
* Section VII. Greek Religion and Cult
* 15: Hélène Collard: Communicating with the Divine: Herms in Attic
Vase Painting
* 16: Jenny Wallensten: Hermes as Visible in Votive Inscriptions
* 17: Sandra Blakely: Hermes, Kyllene, Samothrace, and the Sea
* Section VIII. Egypt
* 18: Ljuba Merlina Bortolani: The Greek Magical Hymn to Hermes:
Syncretism or Disguise? The Hellenization of Thoth in Graeco-Egyptian
Magical Literature
* 19: Athanassios Vergados: Hermes and the Figs: On P.Oxy.17.2084
* Section IX. Cosmic
* 20: Nicola Reggiani: Rethinking Hermes: Cosmic Justice and
Proportional Distributions
* 21: Henk Versnel: Great Hermes: Three Ways towards Stardom
* Endmatter
* Index
* List of Figures
* List of Abbreviations
* List of Contributors
* 1: Jenny Strauss Clay and John F. Miller: Introduction
* Section I. Son, Father, Brother
* 2: H. Alan Shapiro: Like Mother, Like Son? Hermes and Maia in Text
and Image
* 3: Carolyn M. Laferrière: Hermes among Pan and the Nymphs on
Fourth-Century Votive Reliefs
* 4: Jennifer Larson: Hermes and Heracles
* Section II. Trickster
* 5: Jenny Strauss Clay: Hide and Go Seek: Hermes in Homer
* 6: Andrea Capra and Cecilia Nobili: Hermes Iambicus
* Section III. Comic
* 7: Simone Beta: The God and his Double: Hermes as Character and
Speaking Statue in Greek Comedy
* 8: Erin K. Moodie: Hermes/Mercury: God of Comedy?
* Section IV. Erotic
* 9: Joseph Farrell: Hermes in Love: The Erotic Career of a Mercurial
Character
* 10: Micah Young Myers: Lascivus Puer: Cupid, Hermes, and Hymns in
Ovid's Metamorphoses
* Section V. Mediator
* 11: S. J. Harrison: Horace's Mercury and Mercurial Horace
* 12: Sergio Casali: Crossing the Borders: Vergil's Intertextual
Mercury
* Section VI. Commerce and Exchange
* 13: Duncan E. MacRae: Mercury and Materialism: Images of Mercury and
the Tabernae of Pompeii
* 14: Thomas Biggs: Did Mercury Build the Ship of Aeneas?
* Section VII. Greek Religion and Cult
* 15: Hélène Collard: Communicating with the Divine: Herms in Attic
Vase Painting
* 16: Jenny Wallensten: Hermes as Visible in Votive Inscriptions
* 17: Sandra Blakely: Hermes, Kyllene, Samothrace, and the Sea
* Section VIII. Egypt
* 18: Ljuba Merlina Bortolani: The Greek Magical Hymn to Hermes:
Syncretism or Disguise? The Hellenization of Thoth in Graeco-Egyptian
Magical Literature
* 19: Athanassios Vergados: Hermes and the Figs: On P.Oxy.17.2084
* Section IX. Cosmic
* 20: Nicola Reggiani: Rethinking Hermes: Cosmic Justice and
Proportional Distributions
* 21: Henk Versnel: Great Hermes: Three Ways towards Stardom
* Endmatter
* Index