TY - CHAP T1 - The Reception of the Homeric Hymns in Aelius Aristides T2 - The Reception of the Homeric Hymns Y1 - 2016 A1 - Vergados, Athanassios ED - Vergados, Athanassios ED - Schwab, Andreas ED - Faulkner, Andrew AB - This paper explores Aelius Aristides’ engagement with the Homeric Hymns. The possible allusions to the Homeric Hymns in Aristides’ prose Hymns are discussed in the first part, while the second part examines the references to h.Ap. in Aristides’ Or. 28 (περὶ τοῦ παραφθέγματος) and 34 (κατὰ τῶν ἐξορχουμένων), and his use of the term prooimion. It is concluded that (i) Aristides knew the Homeric Hymns, both the longer and some shorter ones; (ii) in some cases his allusions to them take into account the Hymns’ Hellenistic Nachleben; (iii) Aristides might have considered his prose Hymns to have proemial (introductory) function, in analogy to what he thought the meaning and function of the term prooimion was in archaic and Classical times. [http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198728788.001.0001/acprof-9780198728788-chapter-9] JF - The Reception of the Homeric Hymns PB - Oxford University Press CY - Oxford ER -