The Homeric hymns interpretative essays

"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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Faulkner, Andrew, 1978- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press 2011
Edición:1st published
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Acceso en línea:Sumario
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  • Introduction : Modern scholarhip on the 'Homeric Hymns' : foundational issues / Andrew Faulkner
  • Part 1. The first 'Homeric Hymn' to Dionysus / Martin West ; The 'Homeric Hymn to Demeter' : some central questions revisited / Nicholas Richardson ; The 'Homeric Hymn to Apollo' : the question of unity / Mike Chappell ; The 'Homeric Hymn to Hermes' : humour and epiphany / Athanassios Vergados ; An erotic 'Aristeia' : the 'Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite' and its relation to the Iliadic tradition / Pascale Brillet-Dubois ; The seventh 'Homeric Hymn' to Dionysus : an epiphanic sketch / Dominique Jaillard ; The 'Homeric Hymn to Pan' / Oliver Thomas. Part 2. The collection of 'Homeric Hymns' : from the seventh to the third centuries BC / Andrew Fauklner ; Homeric and un-Homeric hexameter hymns : a question of type / William D. Furley ; The 'Homeric Hymns' as genre / Jenny Clay ; Children of Zeus in the 'Homeric Hymns' : generational succession / Nancy Felson ; The earliest phases in the reception of the 'Homeric Hymns' / Gregory Nagy ; The 'Homeric Hymns' as poetic offerings : musical and ritual relationships with the gods / Claude Calame