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 interest in recent years.
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Interpretative Essays
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ISBN
9780191618383
Publisert
2020
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Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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