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):

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

Hymns, Greek (Classical).

Narration (Rhetoric).

Homeric hymns--History and criticism.

Homeric hymns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 place and function of the narrative section changed over time and with different kinds of hymn (literary or cultic; religious, philosophical or magical). Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns traces developments in narrative in the hymn genre from the Homeric Hymns via Hellenistic and Imperial hymns to those in the Orphic tradition and in magical papyri, analysing them in narratological terms in order to place them in the wider context of ancient Greek narrative literature.

Contents:

Front Matter / Andrew Faulkner and Owen Hodkinson

Introduction / A. Faulkner and O. Hodkinson

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

Callimachus and His Narrators / S.A. Stephens

Narrative Strategies and Hesiodic Reception in Callimachus’ Λουτρὰ Παλλάδος / A. Vergados

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

Narrative in a Late Hymn to Dionysos (P. Ross. Georg. I.11) / 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

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

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

Hymns in the Papyri Graecae Magicae / I. Petrovic

Bibliography / Andrew Faulkner and Owen Hodkinson

Indexes / Andrew Faulkner and Owen Hodkinson.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-28951-8

OCLC:

904036861

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004289512 DOI