[PDF] Hymnic Narrative And The Narratology Of Greek Hymns eBook

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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004289518

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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.

Author : Homerus
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0801879833

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A rich source for students of Greek mythology and literature, the Homeric hymns are also fine poetry. Attributed by the ancients to Homer, these prooimia, or preludes, were actually composed over centuries and used by poets to prepare for the singing or recitation of longer portions of the Homeric epics. In his acclaimed translations of the hymns, Apostolos Athanassakis preserves the essential simplicity of the original Greek, offering a straightforward, line-by-line translation that makes no attempts to masquerade or modernize. For this long-awaited new edition, Athanassakis enhances his classic work with a comprehensive index, careful and selective changes in the translations themselves, and numerous additions to the notes which will enrich the reader's experience of these ancient and influential poems.

Author : Andrew M. Miller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004076747

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This detailed literary and rhetorical analysis of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo treats the poem as a unified work of art in which sophisticated poetic craftsmanship is put to the service of serious ethical thought. By means of parallels from Homer, Hesiod, and other Homeric hymns, as well as from later epideictic poetry and prose, the author seeks to show that the poet of the Hymn follows a coherent ''program'' whose intention is to praise Apollo from his birth on humble Delos to his establishment in a position of glory at Delphi. At the same time, the ''Delian'' and ''Pythian'' portions of the hymn are linked by a complex network of ideas bearing on the ethos of Apollo and the nature of his Delphic oracle. The study takes into account previous scholarship on the Hymn and provides appendices on ''The Question of Unity'' and ''The Cosmological Hierarchy and Apollo's Timai''.

Author : Homer
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 32,25 MB
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN :

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The Homeric Hymns is a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. The hymns employ the same epic meter—dactylic hexameter—as the Iliad and Odyssey, use many similar formulas and are couched in the same dialect. Contents: To Dionysus To Demeter To Apollo To Hermes To Aphrodite To Aphrodite To Dionysus To Ares To Artemis To Aphrodite To Athena To Hera To Demeter To the Mother of the Gods To Heracles With the Heart of a Lion To Asclepius To the Dioscuri To Hermes To Pan To Hephaestus To Apollo To Poseidon To Zeus To Hestia To the Muses and Apollo To Dionysus To Artemis To Athena To Hestia To Gaia, Mother of All To Helios To Selene To the Dioscuri

Author : Diane J. Rayor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 2004-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0520239938

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Author : Andrew Faulkner
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0191618381

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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.

Author : Cora Angier Sowa
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
ISBN : 0865160376

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A thorough analysis of the mechanics of the language of Homer as used in the Iliad and the Odyssey.

Author : Andrew Faulkner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0198728786

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The Reception of the Homeric Hymns is a collection of original essays exploring the reception of the Homeric Hymns in the literature and scholarship of the first century BC and beyond, particularly texts and authors of the late Hellenistic, Imperial, and Late Antique periods.