A. INTRODUCTION
Sara Lanna : Introduction
1. The Author and the Historical Context
2. Proems, Hymns, Prayers: The Generic Forms of Mesomedes' Poetry
3. Reception: Mesomedes' Influence on the Poetry of Later Antiquity
4. Manuscript Tradition
5. Suggested Variations from Other Editions
B. TEXT, TRANSLATIONS AND NOTES
Text (Sara Lanna ) and Translation (Richard Gordon/Sara Lanna)
1a. To the Muse
1b. To Calliope and Apollo
2. Hymn to Helios
3. Hymn to Nemesis
4. To Physis
5. To Isis
6. To the Adriatic Sea
Sara Lanna and Richard L. Gordon : Notes on the Translations
C. ESSAYS
The Hymn: A Genre and its Development as a Mode of
Expressing Religious Content (Sara Lanna)
Religious Developments in the Roman Empire, c.70-170 CE
(Richard Gordon)
Mesomedes and the Philosophical Zeitgeist (Oliver Schelske)
The Recovery of Ancient Greek Music and the Contribution
of Papyrology (Egert Pöhlmann)
A Mesomedes-Corpus of Late Antiquity with Musical
Notation (Egert Pöhlmann)
Mesomedes and the Music of the Imperial Period (Egert Pöhlmann)
The Hymn of Mesomedes for Antinous (Inscription of Kourion,
Mitford No. 104) (Egert Pöhlmann)
Mesomedes' Other Hymns? Controversial Proposals.
Hymn to Attis (Heitsch no. 44,3) (Sara Lanna)
