Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek HymnsAncient 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. |
Contents
Introduction Faulkner and Hodkinson | 1 |
Part 1 The Homeric Hymns | 17 |
Tradition and Innovation in the Longer Homeric Hymns Richardson | 19 |
Speech in the Homeric Hymns Faulkner | 31 |
Part 2 Hellenistic Hymns | 47 |
Chapter 3 Callimachus and His Narrators Stephens | 49 |
Chapter 4 Narrative Strategies and Hesiodic Reception in Callimachus Λουτρὰ Παλλάδος Vergados | 69 |
Chapter 5 Time and Place Narrative and Speech in Philicus Philodamus and Limenius Bowie | 87 |
Mesomedean Narrative and the Interpretation of a Genre Brumbaugh | 165 |
The Narrative of Proclus Hymns Devlin | 183 |
Part 4 Orphic Hymns and Magical Hymns | 207 |
Chapter 10 The Narrative Techniques of the Orphic Hymns Morand | 209 |
Chapter 11 The Poet and His Addressees in Orphic Hymns Herrero de Jáuregui | 224 |
Chapter 12 Hymns in the Papyri Graecae Magicae Petrovic | 244 |
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Part 3 Imperial Greek Hymns | 119 |
Chapter 6 Narrative in a Late Hymn to Dionysos P Ross Georg I11 Furley | 121 |
Chapter 7 Narrative Technique and Generic Hybridity in Aelius Aristides Prose Hymns Hodkinson | 139 |
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addressed Aelius Aristides ancient Aphrodite Aristides Artemis Athena audience birth Callimachus Chariclo context cult deity Delos Delphi deme Demeter Demeter’s described Devlin Dionysiac Dionysus direct speech divine Eleusis epiphany epithets Erysichthon Furley Furley and Bremer genre god’s goddess gods Greek hymns Helios Hephaestion Hera Hermes Hesiod hexameter Homeric Hymns Hymn to Apollo Hymn to Demeter hymn to Zeus hymn-orations hymn’s hymnic narrative Ie Paean IIaláy images initiates invocation koninklijke brill nv Leto Limenius lines Lykurgos Melampodia Mesomedes mimetic Morand mortals Musaeus Muses mysteries myth mythical narrative section narratological narrator narrator’s Olympus oration Orpheus Orphic Hymns Paian papyrus performance Persephone pgm hymns Philicus Philodamus poem poet poet’s poetic poetry Poseidon practitioner praise prayer present Proclus proem prose hymns Prospalta Protogonos punishment reference relationship ritual role sing song soul speaker story Teiresias Telphousa theme Theogony traditional voice words Zeus δὲ καὶ
Bibliographic information
| Title | Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns Volume 384 of Mnemosyne, Supplements |
| Contributors | Andrew Faulkner, Owen Hodkinson |
| Publisher | BRILL, 2015 |
| ISBN | 9004289518, 9789004289512 |
| Length | 308 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism / Medieval Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical |
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