Lyric Addresses to Ancient and New Gods
Mesomedes, Proems - Hymns - Prayers
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Beschreibung
This volume explores six lyric poems by Mesomedes, a Cretan court musician to Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, addressing Greek traditional and "new" gods. Featuring a new edition of the Greek texts with annotated translations into English and Italian, it also includes essays revealing the cultural and religious dynamics of the Roman Empire in the second century AD.
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.
Autor*in
Oliver Schelske
Professor of Classical Philology/Greek Studies at the University of Leipzig.
Themen in »Lyric Addresses to Ancient and New Gods«
Imperial and Late Antiquity Greek Literature History of ancient religions Isis Neopythagoreanism Ancient Music