The "Homeric Hymn to Hermes" (eBook)

Introduction, Text and Commentary

Athanassios Vergados (Autor)

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2013
732 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-025970-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume offers a detailed philological commentary on the longest of the Homeric Hymns. The commentary is preceded by a lengthy introduction addressing the Hymn’s ideas on poetry and music, its humorous aspects, the poem’s relation to the rest of archaic hexameter literature, its reception in later literature, its structure, date and place of composition, and the question of its transmission. Together, the introduction and the commentary provide a detailed analysis of the hymn with a view to ascertaining its significance in Greek literature.

Athanassios Vergados, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany, and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Autor

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Athanassios Vergados, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany, andNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments 7
Abbreviations 9
Introduction 15
1. Summary of the poem 16
2. Music, poetry, and language 18
2.1 Hermes’ two songs 18
2.2 Hermes’ songs as mise en abyme 23
2.3 Semata, poetry, and prophecy 29
2.4 Hermes’ deceptive language 36
3. Humour in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes 40
4. Relation to archaic literature 54
4.1 Language 54
4.1.1 Vocabulary: 54
4.1.2 Formulaic Phrases: 62
4.2 Metre and prosody 71
4.3 Thematic correspondences between h.Herm. and other archaic hexameter poems: 79
Appendix: oral or literate composition? 87
5. Relation to other literature 90
5.1 References to the story of h.Herm. in other authors 90
5.2 Allusions to h.Herm 124
6. Structure and arrangement 139
7. Date and place of composition 144
7.1 Date of composition 145
7.2 Place of composition 162
8. The transmission of the text 168
.µ... e.. ..µ.~. 175
Commentary 227
Bibliography 601
Illustrations 661
Indices 671

Rezensionen

lt;P>"Book projects such as this ought to be congratulated and set an example for respective undertakings [...]"
Marios Skempis in: Museum Helveticum. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für klassische Altertumswissenschaft Vol. 73 (2016), Fasc. 2: 223

"[...] the overall impression is that this commentary certainly succeeds in answering many of the various kinds of questions on a structural, interpretational, and lexical level that arise when reading the poem. [...] it is absolutely beyond doubt that this book is a learned and valuable contribution to the study of the Homeric Hymns in general and this specific poem in particular."
Jacqueline Klooster in: Gnomon, Band 89 (2017), Heft 2, 107-110

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.12.2013
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• Zusatzinfo: 16 b/w ill.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Latein / Altgriechisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Dichtung • Greek • Griechisch • Hermes • Homeric Hymns • Homerische Hymnen • Poetry • Religion
• ISBN-10: 3-11-025970-2 / 3110259702
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-025970-4 / 9783110259704