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Subject(s)

• Homeric hymns—Criticism, interpretation, etc [Browse]

Series

• Texte und Kommentare ; Bd. 39. [More in this series]
• Texte und Kommentare : eine altertumswissenschaftliche Reihe, 0563-3087 ; Bd. 39 [More in this series]

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Texte und Kommentare

Summary note

The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (600s BCE?) tells the story of a brief encounter between the goddess of love and the cowherd Anchises, which led to the birth of the Trojan hero Aeneas. Less than 300 lines long, it is among the shortest of the so-called ‘major Homeric Hymns’. However, it is also richly and beautifully conceived and narrated, and of enormous importance for the Greek mythology and the history of Greek religion. Olson offers a complete new text of the poem and of ten related ‘minor Hymns’, based on a fresh examination of the manuscripts; a full critical apparatus; and a translation. The work is completed by a substantial introduction, which treats inter alia the stories of Aeneas, the problem of dating early Greek epic, and the nature of the connections between the Hymn to Aphrodite and the Homeric and Hesiodic poems. Olson furthermore offers a substantial, narratologically-oriented commentary.

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Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Anchises, Aeneas, and the Aeneidae
• Date of composition
• Poetic affiliations of the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite
• Aphrodite and sexuality
• The metrics of the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite
• Textual transmission
• Critical text and translation: Hymn 5: to Aphrodite
• Hymn 6: to Aphrodite
• Hymn 9: to Artemis
• Hymn 10: to Aphrodite
• Hymn 11: to Athena
• Hymn 12: to Hera
• Hymn 24: to Hestia
• Hymn 27: to Artemis
• Hymn 28: to Athena
• Hymn 29: to Hestia
• Commentary: Hymn 5: to Aphrodite
• Hymn 29: to Hestia.

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Other format(s)

Issued also in print.

Other title(s)

• Homeric hymns. Greek. 2012.
• Homeric hymns. English. 2012.

ISBN

• 9786613940292
• 3-11-026074-3
• 1-283-62784-1

OCLC

• 812207378
• 817816720
• 853251473

Doi

• 10.1515/9783110260748

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