Olson The "Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite" and Related Texts

Text, Translation and Commentary
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-026074-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Greek, Ancient (to 1453), Englisch, Band 39, 341 Seiten

Reihe: Texte und KommentareISSN

The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (600s BCE?) tells the story of a brief encounter between the goddess of love and the cowherd Anchises, which led to the birth of the Trojan hero Aeneas. Less than 300 lines long, it is among the shortest of the so-called ‘major Homeric Hymns’. However, it is also richly and beautifully conceived and narrated, and of enormous importance for the Greek mythology and the history of Greek religion.

Olson offers a complete new text of the poem and of ten related ‘minor Hymns’, based on a fresh examination of the manuscripts; a full critical apparatus; and a translation. The work is completed by a substantial introduction, which treats inter alia the stories of Aeneas, the problem of dating early Greek epic, and the nature of the connections between the Hymn to Aphrodite and the Homeric and Hesiodic poems. Olson furthermore offers a substantial, narratologically-oriented commentary.

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Olson, Stuart Douglas

Olson, S. Douglas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Editionen, Kritische Editionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;7
2;Abbreviations and Sigla;13
3;Introduction;15
3.1;1. Anchises, Aeneas, and the Aeneidae;15
3.2;2. Date of Composition;24
3.3;3. Poetic Affiliations of the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite;30
3.4;4. Aphrodite and Sexuality;42
3.5;5. The Metrics of the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite;48
3.6;6. Textual Transmission;56
4;Critical Text and Translation;67
4.1;Hymn 5: To Aphrodite;68
4.2;Hymn 6: To Aphrodite;118
4.3;Hymn 9: To Artemis;122
4.4;Hymn 10: To Aphrodite;124
4.5;Hymn 11: To Athena;126
4.6;Hymn 12: To Hera;128
4.7;Hymn 24: To Hestia;130
4.8;Hymn 27: To Artemis;132
4.9;Hymn 28: To Athena;136
4.10;Hymn 29: To Hestia;140
5;Commentary;143
5.1;Hymn 5: To Aphrodite;143
5.2;Hymn 6: To Aphrodite;293
5.3;Hymn 9: To Artemis;301
5.4;Hymn 10: To Aphrodite;305
5.5;Hymn 11: To Athena;309
5.6;Hymn 12: To Hera;311
5.7;Hymn 24: To Hestia;313
5.8;Hymn 27: To Artemis;317
5.9;Hymn 28: To Athena;325
5.10;Hymn 29: To Hestia;331
6;Bibliography;335
7;Index;341

Über Autor(innen)

Olson, Stuart Douglas
S. Douglas Olson, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.