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Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns: Diachronic Development in Epic Diction

Name: Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns: Diachronic Development in Epic Diction
ISBN: 9780521238694

Richard Janko

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This book investigates the history of the ancient Greek tradition of oral epic poetry which culminated in the Iliad and Odyssey. These masterpieces did not exhaust the tradition, and poems were composed in the same style for several generations afterwards. One group of such poems is the 'Homeric Hymns', ascribed to Homer in antiquity. In fact the origins of these Hymns are as mysterious as those of the Homeric epics themselves with little external evidence to assist. This book will be of interest to scholars concerned with Greek philology and dialects, Homeric epic and Greek literature of the Archaic period. It should also find readers amongst specialists in other oral poetries and those using computers in the Humanities.

Categories:

Poetry

Year:

1982

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press

Language:

english

Pages:

338

ISBN 10:

0521238692