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Titre(s) : Tracking Hermes, pursuing Mercury [Texte imprimé] / edited by John F. Miller and Jenny Strauss Clay
Édition : 1st ed.
Publication : Oxford (GB) : Oxford University Press, 2019
Description matérielle : xxiv, 378 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note(s) : "The present volume grew out of a conference, "Tracking Hermes/Mercury," held at the
University of Virginia in the Spring of 2014.". - Includes bibliographical references
and indexes
"Of all the divinities of classical antiquity, the Greek Hermes (Mercury in his Roman
alter ego) is the most versatile, enigmatic, complex, and ambiguous. The runt of the
Olympian litter, he is the god of lies and tricks, yet is also kindly towards mankind
and a bringer of luck. His functions embrace both the marking of boundaries and their
transgression, but also extend to commerce, lucre, and theft, as well as rhetoric
and practical jokes. In another guise, he plays the role of mediator between all realms
of human and divine activity, embracing heaven, earth, and the netherworld. Pursuing
this elusive divinity requires a truly multidisciplinary approach, reflecting his
prismatic nature, and the twenty contributions to this volume draw on a wide range
of fields to achieve this, from Greek and Roman literature (epic, lyric, and drama),
epigraphy, cult, and religion, to vase painting and sculpture. In offering an overview
of the myriad aspects of Hermes/Mercury-including his origins, patronage of the gymnasium,
and relation to other trickster figures-the volume attempts to track the god's footprints
across the many domains in which he partakes. Moreover, in keeping with his deep connection
to exchange, commerce, and dialogue, it aims to exemplify and further encourage discourse
between Latinists and Hellenists, as well as between scholars of literary and material
cultures."
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Miller, John F. (1950-....). Éditeur scientifique
Clay, Jenny Strauss (1942-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Hermès (divinité grecque)
Mercure (divinité romaine)
Genre ou forme : Actes de congrès
Indice(s) Dewey :
292.211 3 (23e éd.) = Dieux grecs et romains
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0198777345. - ISBN 9780198777342 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45721186v
Notice n° :
FRBNF45721186
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Like mother, like son? : Hermes and Maia in text and image / H.A. Shapiro ; Hermes
among Pan and the nymphs on fourth-century votive reliefs / Carolyn M. Laferrière
; Hermes and Heracles / Jennifer Larson ; Hide and go seek : Hermes in Homer / Jenny
Strauss Clay ; Hermes Iambicus / Andrea Capra, Cecilia Nobili ; The God and his
double : Hermes as character and speaking statue in Greek comedy / Simone Beta ;
Hermes/Mercury : god of comedy? / Erin K. Moodie ; Hermes in love : the erotic career
of a Mercurial character / Joseph Farrell ; Lascivas Puer : Cupid, Hermes, and hymns
in Ovid's Metamorphoses / Micah Young Myers ; Horace's Mercury and Mercurial Horace
/ S.J. Harrison ; Crossing the borders : Vergil's intertextual Mercury / Sergio Casali
; Mercury and materialism : images of Mercury and the Tabernae of Pompeii / Duncan
E. MacRae ; Did Mercury build the ship of Aeneas? / Thomas Biggs ; Communicating
with the divine : herms in attic vase painting / Hélène Collard ; Hermes as visible
in votive inscriptions / Jenny Wallensten ; Hermes, Kyllene, Samothrace, and the
sea / Sandra Blakely ; The Greek magical hymn to Hermes : syncretism or disguise?
The Hellenization of Thoth in Graeco-Egyptian magical literature / Ljuba Merlina Bortolani
; Hermes and the figs : on P. Oxy. 17.2084 / Athanassios Vergados ; Rethinking Hermes
: cosmic justice and proportional distributions / Nicola Reggiani ; Great Hermes
: three ways toward stardom / Henk Versnel.
