Hexametrical genres from Homer to Theocritus / Christopher Athanasious Faraone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faraone, Christopher A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hexameter.

Greek poetry--History and criticism.

Greek poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

The book discusses short, non-epic, and under-appreciated hexametrical genres, such as oracles, incantations, and laments, and gains new insight into their ritual performance, their early history, and how poets from Homer to Theocritus embedded or imitated these genres to enrich their own poems.

Contents:

cover

Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

1 Introduction

1.1 Embedded Genres in Homeric Narratives

1.2 Mimesis of Genres in Hellenistic Poetry

1.3 Archaic and Classical Fragments

1.4 Dactylic Hexameters

1.5 Summary

2 Some Preliminary Soundings

2.1 Hector's "Oral Epitaph" and Peleus' Hypothêkê

2.2 Hexametrical Epithalamia

2.3 Varieties of Performance in the Pseudo-​Herodotean Life of Homer

2.4 Summary

3 The Chryses Episode as an Epichoric Hymn

3.1 The Unexpected Paean at the Temple of Apollo Smintheus

3.2 Variant Versions of the Iliad Proem

3.3 Impious Kings and Other Hymnic Characters

3.4 Other Embedded Hymns in Panhellenic Narratives

3.5 Summary

4 Circe's Instructions as a Sibylline Oracle

4.1 A Map for Finding Hades

4.2 A Script for Raising the Dead

4.3 "Orphic" Tablets and Nausicaa's Advice

4.4 More Oracular Speech in the Odyssey

4.5 The Earliest Sibylline Oracles

4.6 Summary

5 Helen's Pharmakon as a Disguised Incantation

5.1 Helen's Herbal Pharmakon

5.2 Hexametrical Pharmaka from Empedocles to Plato

5.3 Conditional Boasts as Incantatory Formulae

5.4 Theocritus Idyll 2 and Other Hexametrical Curses

5.5 Summary

6 Like Golden Aphrodite: Female Lament in the Iliad

6.1 Myrmidon Laments for Patroclus

6.2 Trojan Laments for Hector

6.3 Ritual Laments for Adonis

6.4 Other Funerary Laments

6.5 Summary

7 Conclusions

Appendix A Curse Prayers in Dactylic Hexameters

Appendix B Necromantic Prayers in Dactylic Hexameters

Appendix C Empedocles the Goês

Appendix D Early Anthologies of Hexametrical Incantations

Appendix E Instructional Oracles as a Frame for the Hesiodic Calendars

Bibliography

Subject Index.

Index of Proper Nouns

Index of Discussed Passages

Index of Foreign Words

04_9780197552971_Index1.pdf

03_9780197552971_Index2.pdf

02_9780197552971_Index3.pdf

01_9780197552971_Index4.pdf.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-755300-1

0-19-755299-4

OCLC:

1276854542