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.
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978-3-16-164378-1 (9783161643781)
DOI
10.1628/978-3-16-164378-1
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Born 1982; 2011 PhD in Classical Philology from Tor Vergata University of Rome; 2015 postdoctoral fellowship at La Sapienza University of Rome; high school teacher for Italian, Latin Language and Literature, History and Geography near Rome.
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Honorary professor in the Dept. of Religious Studies (Religionsgeschichte der Antike) and Associate Fellow of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Research at the University of Erfurt, Germany.
Professor emeritus of Ancient Greek Philology at the Justus Liebig University Giessen (1976-1980) and at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen (1980-2001); 1998 and 2003 Visiting Professor at the University of Athens.
Professor of Classical Philology/Greek Studies at the University of Leipzig.
