Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction
6. 1. Summary of the poem 2
7. 2. Music, Poetry, and Language 4
8. 3. Humour in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes 26
9. 4. Relation to Archaic Literature 40
10. 5. Relation to Other Literature 76
11. 6. Structure and Arrangement 125
12. 7. Date and Place of Composition 130
13. 8. The Transmission of the Text 154
14. ΥΜΝΟΣ ΕΙΣ ΕΡΜΗΝ 161
15. Commentary 213
16. Bibliography 587
17. Illustrations 647
18. Index Rerum 657