The Homeric Hymns

The Homeric Hymns
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 417
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ISBN-10 : 9780199589036
ISBN-13 : 0199589038
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Book Synopsis The Homeric Hymns by : Andrew Faulkner

Download or read book The Homeric Hymns written by Andrew Faulkner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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