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Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns
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Edited by:
Andrew Faulkner
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2015
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About this book
Ancient Greek hymns traditionally include a narrative section describing episodes from the hymned deity’s life. These narratives developed in parallel with epic and other narrative genres, and their study provides a different perspective on ancient Greek narrative. Within the hymn genre, the place and function of the narrative section changed over time and with different kinds of hymn (literary or cultic; religious, philosophical or magical). Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns traces developments in narrative in the hymn genre from the Homeric Hymns via Hellenistic and Imperial hymns to those in the Orphic tradition and in magical papyri, analysing them in narratological terms in order to place them in the wider context of ancient Greek narrative literature.
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Andrew Faulkner, D.Phil. (2005), Oxford University, is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Waterloo. He has published on Greek poetry and hymnography from the archaic period to Late Antiquity.
Owen Hodkinson, D.Phil. (2009), Oxford University, is Lecturer in Greek and Roman Cultures at the University of Leeds. He has published several articles on Greek narrative and epistolary literature, and co-edited Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature (Brill 2013).
Contributors are: Ewen Bowie, Michael Brumbaugh, Nicola Devlin, William D. Furley, Miguel Herrero de Jáuregi, Anne-France Morand, Ivana Petrovic, Nicholas Richardson, Susan A. Stephens, and Athanassios Vergados.
Owen Hodkinson, D.Phil. (2009), Oxford University, is Lecturer in Greek and Roman Cultures at the University of Leeds. He has published several articles on Greek narrative and epistolary literature, and co-edited Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature (Brill 2013).
Contributors are: Ewen Bowie, Michael Brumbaugh, Nicola Devlin, William D. Furley, Miguel Herrero de Jáuregi, Anne-France Morand, Ivana Petrovic, Nicholas Richardson, Susan A. Stephens, and Athanassios Vergados.
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eBook published on:
August 11, 2015
eBook ISBN:
9789004289512
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Main content:
298
eBook ISBN:
9789004289512
Keywords for this book
religion; literature; poetry; Homeric; Callimachus; magical; Orphic; epigraphic; Neoplatonic; papyri; Hellenistic
Audience(s) for this book
Scholars and students of Greek hymns of all periods and forms, as well as those interested in the history of Greek narrative literature and its study.
