14:30 – 15:00 On the Homeric Hymns in Byzantium Christos Simelidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) 15:00 – 15:30 The Reception of the Homeric Hymns in Theodorus Prodromus Andrew Faulkner (University of Waterloo) 17:30 to u r o f h e i d e l b e r g Wednesday, June 25 9:30 – 10:00 Reading the Homeric Hymns in the Fifteenth Century: Filelfo and Marullus Oliver Thomas (University of Nottingham) 10:00 – 10:30 The Re-Birth of Venus. Homer’s Hymns to Aphrodite and Poliziano’s Stanze M.E. Laue (University of Trier/Heidelberg) 10:30 – 11:00 coffee break 11:00 – 11:30 “Those Miraculous Effusions of Genius”: the Homeric Hymns Seen through the Eyes of English Poets N. J. Richardson (University of Oxford) 11:30 – 12:00 final discussion iwh symposium The Reception of the Homeric Hymns June 23 – 25, 2014 Related to our program: funding: o r ga n i s at i o n : Andreas Schwab & Athanassios Vergados, University of Heidelberg Andrew Faulkner, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Monday, June 23 9:00 – 9:30 i n t r o d u c to r y r e m a r k s (Director of the iwh; Chair of Classics) 9:30 – 10:00 The Hymn to Hermes and the Politics of Virgil’s Cacus James Clauss (University of Washington) 10:00 – 10:30 The Eclogues, the Georgics, and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes Matthew Carter (University of Virginia) 10:30 – 11:00 coffee break 11:00 – 11:30 Ovid’s Bacchic Helmsman and Homeric Hymn 7 John F. Miller (University of Virginia) 11:30 – 12:00 The Hymn to Aphrodite in Ovid and Augustan Literature Allison Keith (University of Toronto) 12:00 – 12:30 The Hercules Episode in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Jason Nethercut (Knox College) 12:30 – 14:30 l u n c h at i w h 14:30 – 15:00 The Homeric Hymns Turn into Dialogues: Lucian’s “Dialogues of the Gods” Polyxeni Strolonga (Franklin & Marshall College) 15:00 – 15:30 The Reception of the Homeric Hymns in Aelius Aristeides Athanassios Vergados (University of Heidelberg) 15:30 – 16:00 coffee break 16:00 – 16:30 Homeric Hymns and the Hymns in the Papyri Graecae Magicae Ivana Petrovic (Durham University) 16:30 – 17:00 The Homeric Hymns, Cornutus, and the Mythographical Stream J. B. Torres (Universidad de Navara) evening session at the Kollegiengebäude Marstallhof, Raum 513 19:30 – 21:00 Visualizing Divinity: The Reception of the Homeric Hymns in Greek Vase Painting Jenny Strauss Clay (University of Virginia) Tuesday, June 24 9:30 – 10:00 Demeter, Persephone and Other Strange Gods in the Orphic Hymns: Reception of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter? Anne-France Morand (Université Laval) 10:00 – 10:30 Heliodorus’ Aethiopica 3.2.4: Thetis as foil for Demeter? Vicki Cociani (University of Toronto) 10:30 – 11:00 The Reception of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter in Romantic Heidelberg: J.H. Voss and the “Eleusinian Document” Andreas Schwab (University of Heidelberg) 11:00 – 11:30 coffee break 11:30 – 12:00 Praising the God(s): Homeric Hymns, Poetry and Religion in Late Antiquity. Gianfranco Agosti (Sapienza, Università di Roma): 12:00 – 12:30 The Homeric Hymns in Late Antiquity: Proclus and the Hymn to Ares R. M. van den Berg (Universiteit Leiden) 12:30 – 14:30 l u n c h at i w h