Nünlist 2004 gives a brief overview of the Hymns and narratology.Īllen, Thomas W., William R. 1936 is still extremely useful, but somewhat dated. Others can be found in the introductions to editions and translations, with notable contributions by Richardson 2010, West 2003, Cashford 2003, and Càssola 1975. Excellent general comments may also be found in Parker 1991. Critical attention has understandably focused most on the longer Homeric Hymns with extended narratives.Ĭoncise general overviews of the Homeric Hymns are provided by Faulkner 2011 and Clay 1997. There are two mid-length Hymns with narratives, seven to Dionysus (fifty-nine lines), and nineteen to Pan (forty-nine lines), but the rest of the poems in the corpus are short celebrations of divine powers consisting of between three and twenty-two lines. The first Hymn to Dionysus also contained an extended narrative of over 400 lines, but now survives only in fragments. Four of the Homeric Hymns (two to Demeter, three to Apollo, four to Hermes, and five to Aphrodite) contain developed narratives of episodes in the lives of the deities celebrated and stretch from 293 to 580 lines. The poems are, in fact, of varied date and provenance, although the majority are most probably products of the archaic period (7th to 6th centuries BCE). The Homeric Hymns are a collection of thirty-three hexameter hymns to Greek deities, so named because they were often in Antiquity attributed to Homer, the supposed composer of the Iliad and Odyssey.
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