Hymnic narrative and the narratology of Greek hymns / edited by Andrew Faulkner, Owen Hodkinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Faulkner, Andrew, 1978- editor.

Hodkinson, Owen, 1979- editor.

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; Volume 384.

Mnemosyne Supplements, 0169-8958 ; Volume 384

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homeric hymns--History and criticism.

Homeric hymns.

Hymns, Greek (Classical)--History and criticism.

Hymns, Greek (Classical).

Narration (Rhetoric).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Ancient Greek hymns often 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 narrative genres and their study provides a different perspective on ancient Greek narrative. Within the hymn genre, the place and function of the narrative section changed over time and with different kinds of hymn (literary or cultic; religious, philosophical or margical). Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns traces developments in narrative in the hymn genre from the Homeric Hymns via Hellnistic and imperial hymns to those in the Orphic tradition and in magical papyri analyzing them in narratological terms in order to place them in the wider context of ancient Greek narrative literature. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 The Homeric Hymns

1 Constructing a Hymnic Narrative: Tradition and Innovation in the Longer Homeric Hymns / N. Richardson Richardson, N. 19

2 The Silence of Zeus: Speech in the Homeric Hymns / A. Faulkner Faulkner, A. 31

Part 2 Hellenistic Hymns

3 Callimachus and His Narrators / S.A. Stephens Stephens, S.A. 49

4 Narrative Strategies and Hesiodic Reception in Callimachus' Λοντρα Παλλαδος / A. Vergados Vergados, A. 69

5 Time and Place, Narrative and Speech in Philicus, Philodamus, and Limenius / E.L. Bowie Bowie, E.L. 87

Part 3 Imperial Greek Hymns

6 Narrative hi a Late Hymn to Dionysos (P. Ross. Georg. 1.11) / W.D. Furtey Furtey, W.D. 121

7 Narrative Technique and Generic Hybridity in Aelius Aristides' Prose Hymns / O. Hodkinson Hodkinson, O. 139

8 Making the Hymn: Mesomedean Narrative and the Interpretation of a Genre / M. Brumbaugh Brumbaugh, M. 165

9 A Philosopher and His Muse: The Narrative of Proclus' Hymns / N. Devlin Devlin, N. 183

Part 4 Orphic Hymns and "Magical Hymns"

10 The Narrative Techniques of the Orphic Hymns / A-F. Morand Morand, A-F. 209

11 The Poet and His Addressees in Orphic Hymns / M. Herrero de Jáuregui Jáuregui, M. Herrero de 224

12 Hymns in the Papyri Graecae Magicae / I. Petrovic Petrovic, I. 244.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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Print version: Hymnic narrative and the narratology of Greek hymns.

ISBN:

9789004289512

OCLC:

917889112

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