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• INTRODUCTION
• 1. Modern Scholarship on the Homeric Hymns: Foundational Issues
• PART I
• 2. The First Homeric Hymn to Dionysus
• 3. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Some Central Questions Revisited
• 4. The Homeric Hymn to Apollo: The Question of Unity
• 5. The Homeric Hymn to Hermes: Humour and Epiphany
• 6. An Erotic Aristeia: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and its Relation to the Iliadic Tradition
• 7. The Seventh Homeric Hymn to Dionysus: An Epiphanic Sketch
• 8. The Homeric Hymn to Pan
• PART II
• 9. The Collection of Homeric Hymns: From the Seventh to the Third Centuries BC
• 10. Homeric and un-Homeric Hexameter Hymns: A Question of Type
• 11. The Homeric Hymns as Genre
• 12. Children of Zeus in the Homeric Hymns: Generational Succession
• 13. The Earliest Phases in the Reception of the Homeric Hymns
• 14. The Homeric Hymns as Poetic Offerings: Musical and Ritual Relationships with the Gods.
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This is the first collection of scholarly essays on the Homeric Hymns, a corpus of 33 hexameter poems celebrating gods that were probably recited at religious festivals, among other possible performance venues, and were frequently attributed in antiquity to Homer. After a general introduction to modern scholarship on the Homeric Hymns, the essays of the first part of the book examine in detail aspects of the longer narrative poems in the collection, while those of the second part give critical attention to the shorter poems and to the collection as a whole. The contributors to the volume present a wide range of stimulating views on the study of the Homeric Hymns, which have attracted much interest in recent years.
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• INTRODUCTION-- TEXT-- COMMENTARY.
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The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, which tells of the seduction of the shepherd Anchises by the love-goddess Aphrodite, has long been recognized as a masterpiece of early Western literature. This edition is designed as a reference tool to aid scholars and students in their study of the poem. The introduction and commentary deal with points of language appropriate to the specialist or student of Greek, but also with matters of literary interpretation of interest to the non-specialist reader.
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• Contents Acknowledgements Glossary Introduction A. Faulkner and O. Hodkinson
• Part 1 - The Homeric Hymns
• 1 Constructing a Hymnic Narrative: Tradition and Innovation in the Longer Homeric Hymns N. Richardson
• 2 The Silence of Zeus: Speech in the Homeric Hymns A. Faulkner
• Part 2 - Hellenistic Hymns
• 3 Callimachus and His Narrators S.A. Stephens
• 4 Narrative Strategies and Hesiodic Reception in Callimachus'
• A. Vergados
• 5 Time and Place, Narrative and Speech in Philicus, Philodamus, and Limenius E.L. Bowie
• Part 3 - Imperial Greek Hymns
• 6 Narrative in a Late Hymn to Dionysos (P. Ross. Georg. i.11) W.D. Furley
• 7 Narrative Technique and Generic Hybridity in Aelius Aristides' Prose Hymns O. Hodkinson
• 8 Making the Hymn: Mesomedean Narrative and the Interpretation of a Genre M. Brumbaugh
• 9 A Philosopher and His Muse: The Narrative of Proclus' Hymns N. Devlin
• Part 4 - Orphic Hymns and "Magical Hymns"
• 10 The Narrative Techniques of the Orphic Hymns A-F. Morand
• 11 The Poet and His Addressees in Orphic Hymns M. Herrero de Jauregui
• 12 Hymns in the Papyri Graecae Magicae I. Petrovic Bibliography Index of Ancient Passages General Index.
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Ancient Greek hymns traditionally include a narrative section describing episodes from the hymned deity's life. These narratives developed in parallel with epic and other narrative genres, and their study provides a different perspective on ancient Greek narrative. Within the hymn genre, the place and function of the narrative section changed over time and with different kinds of hymn (literary or cultic; religious, philosophical or magical). Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns traces developments in narrative in the hymn genre from the Homeric Hymns via Hellenistic and Imperial hymns to those in the Orphic tradition and in magical papyri, analysing them in narratological terms in order to place them in the wider context of ancient Greek narrative literature.
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• NARRATIVE AND ART-- LATIN LITERATURE-- IMPERIAL AND LATE ANTIQUE LITERATURE-- BYZANTINE LITERATURE-- RENAISSANCE AND MODERN LITERATURE.
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The Reception of the Homeric Hymns is a collection of original essays exploring the reception of the Homeric Hymns and other early hexameter poems in the literature and scholarship of the first century BC and beyond. Although much work has been done on the Hymns over the past few decades, and despite their importance within the Western literary tradition, their influence on authors after the fourth century BC has so far received relatively little attention and there remains much to explore, particularly in the area of their reception in later Greco-Roman literature and art. This volume aims to address this gap in scholarship by discussing a variety of Latin and Greek texts and authors across the late Hellenistic, Imperial, and Late Antique periods, including studies of major Latin authors, such as Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, and Byzantine authors writing in classicizing verse. While much of the book deals with classical reception of the Hymns, including looking beyond the textual realm to their influence on art, the editors and contributors have extended its scope to include discussion of Italian literature of the fifteenth century, German scholarship of the nineteenth century, and the English Romantic poets, demonstrating the enduring legacy of the Homeric Hymns in the literary world.
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