The Homeric hymns : interpretative essays - Faulkner, Andrew, 1978- (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011)
"This is the first collection of scholarly essays on the 'Homeric Hymns', a corpus of 33 hexameter poems celebrating gods that were probably recited at religious festivals, among other possible performance venues, and were frequently attributed in antiquity to Homer. After a general introduction to modern scholarship on the 'Homeric Hymns', the essays of the first part of the book examine in detail aspects of the longer narrative poems in the collection, while those of the second part give critical attention to the shorter poems and to the collection as a whole. The contributors to the volume present a wide range of stimulating views on the study of the 'Homeric Hymns', which have attracted much intereset in recent years"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of dust jacket.
(cont.) Part 2. The collection of 'Homeric Hymns' : from the seventh to the third centuries BC / Andrew Fauklner ; Homeric and un-Homeric hexameter hymns : a question of type / William D. Furley ; The 'Homeric Hymns' as genre / Jenny Clay ; Children of Zeus in the 'Homeric Hymns' : generational succession / Nancy Felson ; The earliest phases in the reception of the 'Homeric Hymns' / Gregory Nagy ; The 'Homeric Hymns' as poetic offerings : musical and ritual relationships with the gods / Claude Calame.
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Keywords: Homeric hymns; Hymns, Greek (Classical) -- History and criticism; Gods, Greek, in literature