All Outputs (7)

Music in Euripides' Medea (2018)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2018). Music in Euripides' Medea. In T. Phillips, & A. D'Angour (Eds.), Music, text and culture in Ancient Greece. Oxford University Press

Argues for the plausibility of Athenaeus' evidence that Euripides' Medea contained an innovative treatment of melody, and discusses how this may have interacted with what the characters within the play say about musical innovations.

Hermetically unsealed: lyric genres in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (2018)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2018). Hermetically unsealed: lyric genres in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. In F. Budelmann, & T. Phillips (Eds.), Textual events: performance and the lyric in early Greece. Oxford University Press

The Hymn to Hermes offers a late archaic or early classical viewpoint on genre in lyric poetry. It compares hymns and theogonies to bantering songs at symposia, apparently in a paradox grounded in Hermes’ ability to control transfers across firm boun... Read More about Hermetically unsealed: lyric genres in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.

Sacrifice and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes 112-41 (2017)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2017). Sacrifice and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes 112-41. In S. Hitch, & I. Rutherford (Eds.), Animal sacrifice in the ancient Greek world (181-199). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139017886.008

Examines the methodology by which one can connect this passage to historical sacrificial practices. In particular, I critique the previous approaches of Kahn, Clay and Burkert, and argue that the passage can be taken as aetiological with special refe... Read More about Sacrifice and the Homeric Hymn to Hermes 112-41.

Sparring partners: fraternal relations in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes (2017)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2017). Sparring partners: fraternal relations in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. In P. Bassino, L. G. Canevaro, & B. Graziosi (Eds.), Conflict and consensus in early Greek hexameter poetry (62-84). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316800034

Discusses the presentation of conflict and modes of conflict-resolution in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.

Homeric and/or hymns: some fifteenth-century approaches (2016)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2016). Homeric and/or hymns: some fifteenth-century approaches. In A. Faulkner, A. Vergados, & A. Schwab (Eds.), The reception of the Homeric hymns (277-300). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198728788.001.0001

Discusses the manuscripts of the Homeric Hymns as evidence for how they were read in the fifteenth century, and particular allusions made to them in the works of Francesco Filelfo and Michael Marullus.

Greek hymnic spaces (2015)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2015). Greek hymnic spaces. In E. Barker, S. Bouzarovski, C. Pelling, & L. Isaksen (Eds.), New Worlds from Old Texts: Revisiting Ancient Space and Place. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199664139.001.0001

This chapter surveys how space is presented in a range of ancient Greek hymns, both literary and cultic. It proposes as a framework for analysis a distinction between the space of the god addressed, that of the human performers and audience, and that... Read More about Greek hymnic spaces.

Creating Problemata with the Hippocratic corpus (2015)
Book Chapter
Thomas, O. (2015). Creating Problemata with the Hippocratic corpus. In R. Mayhew (Ed.), The Aristotelian Problemata physica: philosophical and scientific investigations. Brill

Discusses the various ways in which the Aristotelian Problemata engage with the Hippocratic Corpus, in particular the ways in which they convert Hippocratic material into their question-and-answer format.