The Homeric hymn to Hermes : introduction, text and commentary

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The Homeric hymn to Hermes : introduction, text and commentary

Title remainder

introduction, text and commentary

Statement of responsibility

by Athanassios Vergados

Creator

• Vergados, Athanassios

Author

• Vergados, Athanassios

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic book
• Electronic books
• Electronic books
• Greek poetry
• Greek poetry -- History and criticism
• Hermes, (Greek deity)
• Hermes, (Greek deity) -- In literature
• Homeric hymns
• Homeric hymns
• Hymn to Hermes
• Hymn to Hermes
• Hymns, Greek (Classical)
• Hymns, Greek (Classical) -- History and criticism
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical
• Literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• Electronic book
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Electronic books

Language

• eng
• grc
• eng

Summary

"The Hymn to Hermes, while surely the most amusing of the so-called Homeric Hymns, also presents an array of challenging problems. In just 580 lines, the newborn god invents the lyre and sings a hymn to himself, travels from Cyllene to Pieria to steal Apollo's cattle, organizes a feast at the river Alpheios where he serves the meat of two of the stolen animals, cunningly defends his innocence, and is finally reconciled to Apollo, to whom he gives the lyre in exchange for the cattle. This book provides the first detailed commentary devoted specifically to this unusual poem since Radermacher's 1931 edition. The commentary pays special attention to linguistic, philological, and interpretive matters. It is preceded by a detailed introduction that addresses the Hymn's ideas on poetry and music, the poem's humour, the Hymn's relation to other archaic hexameter literature both in thematic and technical aspects, the poem's reception in later literature, its structure, the issue of its date and place of composition, and the question of its transmission. The critical text, based on F. Càssola's edition, is equipped with an apparatus of formulaic parallels in archaic hexameter poetry as well as possible verbal echoes in later literature."--Publisher's website

Member of

• Texte und Kommentare, Bd. 41
• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

EBLCP

Dewey number

883.0109

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

PA4023.Z5

LC item number

V474 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Texte und Kommentare,

Series volume

Band 41