Hymnic narrative and the narratology of Greek hymns / edited by Andrew Faulkner, Owen Hodkinson.
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 pl...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Greek, Ancient (to 1453) |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2015]
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| Series: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
384. |
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| Summary: | 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. 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004289512 9004289518 |
| ISSN: | 0169-8958 ; |
| Language: | In English, with some texts in Greek. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |