Sophistic Views of the Epic Past from the Classical to the Imperial Age

Paola Bassino is Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies, University of Winchester, UK. Her recent publications include The 'Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi' (2018) and (as co-editor) Conflict and Consensus in Early Greek Hexameter Poetry (2017). Nicolò Benzi is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Greek & Latin at UCL and in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology at the University of Manchester UK. His research interests focus on the intersection between philosophy and literature, in particular in Archaic and early Classical Greece. He has published articles on early Greek philosophical poetry and its relation to epic and lyric poetry.

Introduction - Paola Bassino and Nicolò Benzi (University of Winchester, UK)

1. Between Homer and Gorgias: Helen’s Bewitching Power - Roberta Ioli (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
2. Palamedes, the Sophistic Hero - Paola Bassino (University of Winchester, UK)
3. Ajax Versus Odysseus - Hugo Koning (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
4. Mythological Role Playing among the Sophists - Kathryn Morgan (UCLA, USA)
5. Homeric Exegesis and Athetesis in Lucian’s Versions of the Judgement of Paris - Nicholas Wilshere (University Of Nottingham, UK)
6. Homer’s Lies and Dio’s Truth? Subverting the Epic Past in Dio Chrysostom’s Trojan Oration - Isidor Brodersen (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
7. Helen Was Never Abducted, Paris Abducted Her Because He Was Bored: Two Ways of Rewriting Homer In Dio Chrysostom (Orr. 11 And 20) - Sara Tirrito (University of Nantes, France / University of Turin, Italy)
8. A Rhetorical Trojan War: Philostratus’ Heroicus, The Power of Language and the Construction of the Truth - Valentin Decloquement (University Of Ghent, Belgium)
9. Reading Homer and the Epic Cycle through Ekphrasis: Philostratus’ Epic Imagines - Sophie Schoess (University of St Andrews, UK)

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