The Homeric Hymns

Interpretative Essays
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-958903-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 637 g

The first collection of essays on these fascinating and elusive texts
Introduction to present-day research on the Homeric Hymns provides context for the individual chapters
International team of contributors express a range of views on the Hymns and both evaluate and advance scholarship

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of classics, especially of Greek literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faulkner, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1: Andrew Faulkner: Modern Scholarship on the Homeric Hymns: Foundational Issues
Part I
2: Martin West: The First Homeric Hymn to Dionysus
3: Nicholas Richardson: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Some Central Questions Revisited
4: Mike Chappell: The Homeric Hymn to Apollo: The Question of Unity
5: Athanassios Vergados: The Homeric Hymn to Hermes: Humour and Epiphany
6: Pascale Brillet-Dubois: An Erotic Aristeia: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and its Relation to the Iliadic Tradition
7: Dominique Jaillard: The Seventh Homeric Hymn to Dionysus: An Epiphanic Sketch
8: Oliver Thomas: The Homeric Hymn to Pan
Part II
9: Andrew Faulkner: The Collection of Homeric Hymns: From the Seventh to the Third Centuries BC
10: William D. Furley: Homeric and un-Homeric Hexameter Hymns: A Question of Type
11: Jenny Clay: The Homeric Hymns as Genre
12: Nancy Felson: Children of Zeus in the Homeric Hymns: Generational Succession
13: Gregory Nagy: The Earliest Phases in the Reception of the Homeric Hymns
14: Claude Calame: The Homeric Hymns as Poetic Offerings: Musical and Ritual Relationships with the Gods

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Andrew Faulkner, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo

Contributors:
Claude Calame, Université de Lausanne & École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Mike Chappell, The Open University
Jenny Clay, University of Virginia
Pascale Brillet-Dubois, Université Lumière Lyon 2
Andrew Faulkner, University of Waterloo
Nancy Felson, University of Georgia
William D. Furley, University of Heidelberg & Institute of Classical Studies, London
Dominique Jaillard, Université de Lausanne
Gregory Nagy, Harvard University
Nicholas Richardson, University of Oxford
Oliver Thomas, University of Oxford
Athanassios Vergados, University of Athens
Martin West, University of Oxford