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
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.
The individual chapters are all of high quality. In their totality,
they provide a comprehensive review of existing scholarship, and
also to varying extents strike out on their own. As such, this book
represents a major advance in scholarship.
*Andrew Faulkner, University of Waterloo, Canada, Religious Studies
Review*
The volume covers an impressive chronological and geographical
range and is the first sustained, interdisciplinary study of
Hermes/Mercury, from which one emerges with an expanded view of the
multifaceted god... The individual chapters are all of high
quality. In their totality, they provide a comprehensive review of
existing scholarship, and also to varying extents strike out on
their own. As such, this book represents a major advance in
scholarship.
*Andrew Faulkner, University of Waterloo, Canada, Religious Studies
Review*
The contributions within the volume complement one another, drawing
illuminating parallels between far-flung manifestations of this
ever-wandering god. The collection has already become a standard
reference work for all those studying Hermes/Mercury, opening many
a fascinating research avenue to pursue this elusive god.
*Maciej Paprocki, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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