Author: Andrew Meade Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Form and Generic Intention in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo
Author: Andrew Meade Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns
Author: Richard Janko
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521035651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book investigates the history of the ancient Greek tradition of oral epic poetry which culminated in the Iliad and Odyssey. These masterpieces did not exhaust the tradition, and poems were composed in the same style for several generations afterwards. One group of such poems is the 'Homeric Hymns', ascribed to Homer in antiquity. In fact the origins of these Hymns are as mysterious as those of the Homeric epics themselves with little external evidence to assist. This book will be of interest to scholars concerned with Greek philology and dialects, Homeric epic and Greek literature of the Archaic period. It should also find readers amongst specialists in other oral poetries and those using computers in the Humanities.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521035651
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book investigates the history of the ancient Greek tradition of oral epic poetry which culminated in the Iliad and Odyssey. These masterpieces did not exhaust the tradition, and poems were composed in the same style for several generations afterwards. One group of such poems is the 'Homeric Hymns', ascribed to Homer in antiquity. In fact the origins of these Hymns are as mysterious as those of the Homeric epics themselves with little external evidence to assist. This book will be of interest to scholars concerned with Greek philology and dialects, Homeric epic and Greek literature of the Archaic period. It should also find readers amongst specialists in other oral poetries and those using computers in the Humanities.
From Delos to Delphi
Author: A.M. Miller
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004328289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
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''.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004328289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
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''.
Conventions of Form and Thought in Early Greek Epic Poetry
Author: William G. Thalmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Dissertation Abstracts International
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ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Comprehensive Dissertation Index: Language & Literature A-L
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
The "Homeric Hymn to Hermes"
Author: Athanassios Vergados
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110259702
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
The Hymn to Hermes, while surely the most amusing of the so-called Homeric Hymns, also presents an array of challenging problems. In just 580 lines, the newborn god invents the lyre and sings a hymn to himself, travels from Cyllene to Pieria to steal Apollo’s cattle, organizes a feast at the river Alpheios where he serves the meat of two of the stolen animals, cunningly defends his innocence, and is finally reconciled to Apollo, to whom he gives the lyre in exchange for the cattle. This book provides the first detailed commentary devoted specifically to this unusual poem since Radermacher’s 1931 edition. The commentary pays special attention to linguistic, philological, and interpretive matters. It is preceded by a detailed introduction that addresses the Hymn’s ideas on poetry and music, the poem’s humour, the Hymn’s relation to other archaic hexameter literature both in thematic and technical aspects, the poem’s reception in later literature, its structure, the issue of its date and place of composition, and the question of its transmission. The critical text, based on F. Càssola’s edition, is equipped with an apparatus of formulaic parallels in archaic hexameter poetry as well as possible verbal echoes in later literature.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110259702
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
The Hymn to Hermes, while surely the most amusing of the so-called Homeric Hymns, also presents an array of challenging problems. In just 580 lines, the newborn god invents the lyre and sings a hymn to himself, travels from Cyllene to Pieria to steal Apollo’s cattle, organizes a feast at the river Alpheios where he serves the meat of two of the stolen animals, cunningly defends his innocence, and is finally reconciled to Apollo, to whom he gives the lyre in exchange for the cattle. This book provides the first detailed commentary devoted specifically to this unusual poem since Radermacher’s 1931 edition. The commentary pays special attention to linguistic, philological, and interpretive matters. It is preceded by a detailed introduction that addresses the Hymn’s ideas on poetry and music, the poem’s humour, the Hymn’s relation to other archaic hexameter literature both in thematic and technical aspects, the poem’s reception in later literature, its structure, the issue of its date and place of composition, and the question of its transmission. The critical text, based on F. Càssola’s edition, is equipped with an apparatus of formulaic parallels in archaic hexameter poetry as well as possible verbal echoes in later literature.
A Companion to Greek Literature
Author: Martin Hose
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119088615
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire. Features contributions from a wide range of established experts and emerging scholars of Greek literature Offers comprehensive coverage of the many genres and literary forms produced by the ancient Greeks—including epic and lyric poetry, oratory, historiography, biography, philosophy, the novel, and technical literature Includes readings that address the production and transmission of ancient Greek texts, historic reception, individual authors, and much more Explores the subject of ancient Greek literature in innovative ways
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119088615
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
A Companion to Greek Literature presents a comprehensive introduction to the wide range of texts and literary forms produced in the Greek language over the course of a millennium beginning from the 6th century BCE up to the early years of the Byzantine Empire. Features contributions from a wide range of established experts and emerging scholars of Greek literature Offers comprehensive coverage of the many genres and literary forms produced by the ancient Greeks—including epic and lyric poetry, oratory, historiography, biography, philosophy, the novel, and technical literature Includes readings that address the production and transmission of ancient Greek texts, historic reception, individual authors, and much more Explores the subject of ancient Greek literature in innovative ways
American Doctoral Dissertations
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Inventing Homer
Author: Barbara Graziosi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521809665
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Explores the ancient reception of the Homeric poems and its relation to modern approaches.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521809665
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Explores the ancient reception of the Homeric poems and its relation to modern approaches.