Table of Contents
Part 1 Epic Theatricalities 1. Soundings of the lyre: Performing Homer in archaic Greece Deborah Steiner
2. "Like an expert singer skilled at lyre and song": Reading the Odyssey as Opera George A. Harne
3. Ariosto’s Ulysses: Medieval Homer and the Querelle de Femmes - Eleonora Stoppino
Part 2 Staging a Baroque Homer
4. La castità rinforzata: from Homer to Monteverdi Ellen Rosand
5. Drama, not Epic: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria and the Aesthetic Discourse in Subsequent Librettos Hendrik Schulze
6. Singing Love and Dancing War: The Ballo in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria - Michaela Baranello
7. Reimagining Ulysses: Spectacular Stage Effects in Contemporary Productions of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria - Andrew Eggert
Part 3 Traditions and Afterlife
8. The Illiad and the Odyssey in the Epic Maggio of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines Jo Ann Cavallo
9. The Failure of Scarlatti’s Telemaco - Robert C. Ketterer
10. Intertextual Travel: Cantata as a Mode of Homeric Reception in Early 18th-Century France Michele Cabrini
11. Late Victorian Musical Odysseys. Scholarship, and Translation: The Curious Case of Samuel Butler Edith Hall
Epilogue
12. Ulysses’s Fantastic Voyage, from Dante to Wolcott Pietro Frassica