The Homeric Hymns Interpretative Essays

by Faulkner, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780199589036
• ISBN10: 0199589038
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This is the first collection of scholarly essays on theHomeric Hymns, a corpus of 33 hexameter compositions that were probably recited at festivals of the gods whom they honoured and were often attributed in antiquity to Homer. After a general introduction to modern scholarship on theHomericHymns, 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 theHomeric Hymns, which, with the discovery of new fragments, have attracted much interest in recent years.

Author Biography

Andrew Faulkner is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo ,Ontario, Canada.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction. Modern Scholarship on the Homeric Hymns: Foundational Issues	p. 1
The First Homeric Hymn to Dionysus	p. 29
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Some Central Questions Revisited	p. 44
The Homeric Hymn to Apollo: The Question of Unity	p. 59
The Homeric Hymn to Hermes: Humour and Epiphany	p. 82
An Erotic Aristeia: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and its Relation to the Iliadic Tradition	p. 105
The Seventh Homeric Hymn to Dionysus: An Epiphanic Sketch	p. 133
The Homeric Hymn to Pan	p. 151
The Collection of Homeric Hymns: From the Seventh to the Third Centuries Bc	p. 175
Homeric and Un-Homeric Hexameter Hymns: A Question of Type	p. 206
The Homeric Hymns as Genre	p. 232
Children of Zeus in the Homeric Hymns: Generational Succession	p. 254
The Earliest Phases in the Reception of the Homeric Hymns	p. 280
The Homeric Hymns as Poetic Offerings: Musical and Ritual Relationships with the Gods	p. 334
Works Cited	p. 359
Index Locorum	p. 383
General Index	p. 397
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