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 indetail 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. INDICE: 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 104-32 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: TheHomeric 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 338-62 with the Gods
- ISBN: 978-0-19-958903-6
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 480
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés