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Hymnic narrative and the narratology of Greek hymns /

Ancient Greek hymns traditionally include a narrative section describing episodes from the hymned deity's life. These narratives developed in parallel with epic and other narrative genres, and their study provides a different perspective on ancient Greek narrative. Within the hymn genre, the pl...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Faulkner, Andrew, 1978- (Editor), Hodkinson, Owen, 1979- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Griego Antiguo
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; Volume 384.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Glossary
  • Introduction. Hymnic narrative and the narratology of hymns / O. Hodkinson and A. faulkner
  • Part 1: The Homeric Hymns
  • Constructing a hymnic narrative: tradition and innovation in the longer Homeric Hymns / N. Richardson
  • The silence of Zeus: speech in the Homeric Hymns / A. Faulkner
  • Part 2: Hellenistic hymns: Look who's talking now: Callimachus and his narrators / S.A. Stephens
  • Narrative strategies and Hesiodic reception in Callimachus' Loutra Pallados / A. Vergados
  • Time and place, narrative and speech in Philicus, Philodamus, and Limenius / E. Bowie
  • Part 3: Imperial Greek hymns
  • Narrative in the late Hymn to Dionysos / W.D. Furley
  • Narrative technique and generic hybridity in Aelius Aristides' prose hymns / O. Hodkinson
  • Making the hymn: Mesomedean narrative and the interpretation of a genre / M. Brumbaugh
  • A philosopher and his muse: the narrative of Proclus' hymns / N. Devlin
  • Part 4: Orphic Hymns and "magical hymns"
  • The narrative techniques of the Orphic Hymns / A-F. Morand
  • The poet and his addressees in Orphic Hymns / M. Herrero de Jauregui
  • Hymns in the Papyri Graecae magicae / I. Petrovic.