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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford [etc.] :
Oxford University Press
2011
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| Edition: | 1st published |
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| Online Access: | Sumario |
| See on Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991000353349708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
| Summary: | "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 intereset in recent years" |
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| Physical Description: | XV, 400 p. : il. ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [359]-381) e índices |
| ISBN: | 9780199589036 |
