Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-28813-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 384, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Faulkner, Andrew

Hodkinson, Owen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Papyrologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Über Autor(innen)

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.