Cyprus in Texts from Graeco-Roman Antiquity /
How was the unique character of the island of Cyprus perceived in antiquity? This volume aims to engage with this question by examining references to Cyprus in ancient texts and by exploring authors connected to the island. The readers can thus find literary interpretations on a wide range of Greek...
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Mnemosyne, Supplements ;
467.
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |t Preface -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Katerina Carvounis and Grammatiki Karla -- Part 1 Myth and Literature -- 2 Ancient Cyprus: From Myth to History and Literature -- Andreas Voskos -- Part 2 Archaic Poetry: Composition and Performance -- 3 Cyprias and the Cypria -- Adrian Kelly -- 4 Reflecting upon Cyprus as a Sacred Place in the Homeric Hymn 6 -- Marcela Ristorto and Silvia Reyes -- Part 3 Wandering Heroes -- 5 Stesichorus, Cyprus, and the Heroes of Athens -- Patrick J. Finglass -- 6 The Theme of Teucer's Exile and its Reception in Latin Literature -- Andreas Gavrielatos -- 7 Heroic Mettle and Roman Thought: Cyprian Venus and Foundational Bronze -- Diana Spencer -- Part 4 Divine Presence on the Island: Literature and Ritual -- 8 In the Footsteps of Cypris -- Michael Paschalis -- 9 On the Track of Venus' Cult: The Cypriot Stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Emilia Savva -- 10 Imagined Sacral Landscape? Cult Sites of Apollo Hylates in the Ancient Literary Sources -- Fritz Mitthof -- Part 5 Cyprus as a Place and topos -- 11 "It Was Always Far Away": Othering Cyprus in Greek Comedy -- Antonis K. Petrides -- 12 War and Peace: Cyprus in Greek Comedy -- Athina Papachrysostomou -- 13 Real and Imagined Geographies of Cyprus in Imperial Greek Literature -- William Hutton -- 14 Cyprus in Greek Prose Fiction of the Roman Period -- Christos Fakas -- Part 6 Exploring the Sources: fragmenta and testimonia -- 15 A Hellenistic Philosopher from Cyprus in the Greek Anthology : Epigrams on Zeno of Citium -- Vassilios P. Vertoudakis -- 16 Xenophon the Cypriot and his Novel -- Nikoletta Kanavou -- 17 Archelaus of Cyprus and Alexander of Paphos: Two Enigmatic Figures in the History of Ancient Scholarship and Rhetoric -- Stephanos Matthaios -- 18 Cyprus and Cypriots in the Greek Documentary Papyri and Inscriptions -- Amphilochios Papathomas -- Index. | |
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