Richard L. Gordon (Einleitung von) Honorary professor in the Dept. of Religious Studies (Religionsgeschichte der Antike) and Associate Fellow of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Research at the University of Erfurt, Germany.Egert Pöhlmann (Einleitung von) Professor emeritus of Ancient Greek Philology at the Justus Liebig University Giessen (1976–1980) and at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen (1980–2001); 1998 and 2003 Visiting Professor at the University of Athens.Oliver Schelske (Einleitung von) Professor of Classical Philology/Greek Studies at the University of Leipzig.Sara Lanna (Herausgegeben von) Born 1982; 2011 PhD in Classical Philology from Tor Vergata University of Rome; 2015 postdoctoral fellowship at La Sapienza University of Rome; high school teacher for Italian, Latin Language and Literature, History and Geography near Rome.

• A. INTRODUCTIONSara Lanna : Introduction1. The Author and the Historical Context2. Proems, Hymns, Prayers: The Generic Forms of Mesomedes’ Poetry3. Reception: Mesomedes’ Influence on the Poetry of Later Antiquity4. Manuscript Tradition5. Suggested Variations from Other EditionsB. TEXT, TRANSLATIONS AND NOTESText (Sara Lanna ) and Translation (Richard Gordon/Sara Lanna)1a. To the Muse1b. To Calliope and Apollo2. Hymn to Helios3. Hymn to Nemesis4. To Physis5. To Isis6. To the Adriatic SeaSara Lanna and Richard L. Gordon : Notes on the TranslationsC. ESSAYSThe Hymn: A Genre and its Development as a Mode ofExpressing Religious Content (Sara Lanna)Religious Developments in the Roman Empire, c.70–170 CE(Richard Gordon)Mesomedes and the Philosophical Zeitgeist (Oliver Schelske)The Recovery of Ancient Greek Music and the Contributionof Papyrology (Egert Pöhlmann)A Mesomedes-Corpus of Late Antiquity with MusicalNotation (Egert Pöhlmann)Mesomedes and the Music of the Imperial Period (Egert Pöhlmann)The Hymn of Mesomedes for Antinous (Inscription of Kourion,Mitford No. 104) (Egert Pöhlmann)Mesomedes’ Other Hymns? Controversial Proposals.Hymn to Attis (Heitsch no. 44,3) (Sara Lanna)