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John F. (Hrsg.) Miller

Tracking Hermes, Pursuing Mercury

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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 playsthe role of mediator between all realms of human and divine activity, embracing heaven, earth, and the netherworld.Pursuing this elusive divinity requires a truly multidisciplinar… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Clay, Jenny Strauss (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-19-108312-9
  • EAN: 9780191083129
  • Produktnummer: 29856019
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 384 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 4'311 KB
  • Abbildungen: 38 black-and-white illustrations

Über den Autor


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 theco-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.

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