Coordinated sequences of analogous topics in the Delian and Pythian segments of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo
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Bruce Heiden
Abstract: Discussions of the disputed compositional unity of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo have sometimes suggested that the Delian and Pythian tales share certain analogous themes or topics, which seem to be arranged in at least roughly parallel sequences. Since such claims are exposed to charges of subjectivity, the present study attempts to constrain investigative bias by determining qualifying topics and qualifying sequences independently. The method finds that each tale consists of exactly twenty topics, that each topic has a unique counterpart in the other tale, and that with a very few limited exceptions the counterpart topics occupy identical positions in their respective sequences. The study shows that in this respect the Delian and Pythian tales jointly constitute a single compositional design.
© De Gruyter 2013
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- List of Contributors
- Statement
Articles in the same Issue
- Titelseiten
- Coordinated sequences of analogous topics in the Delian and Pythian segments of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo
- Od. 3, 392 and Theoc. 7, 147: a case of interpretatio Homerica
- Typhon and Eumelus’ Titanomachy
- Oracles and etymologies or when Aeschylus goes to extremes
- Divine names in the Derveni papyrus and Mesopotamian hermeneutics
- Victory, Mythology and the Poetics of Intercultural Praise in Callimachus’ Victoria Berenices
- Aristotle, Eratosthenes and the beginnings of Alexandrian scholarship on the Archaia
- Levels of authorial presence in Anonymus Londiniensis (P.Brit. Libr. inv. 137)
- Beyond Impotence Some unexplored Ovidian dynamics in Petronius’s sketch of the Croton episode (Satyrica 126. 1–140. 12)
- List of Contributors
- Statement
