Christopher Athanasious Faraone

Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus

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Produktbeschreibung

The book discusses short, non-epic, and under-appreciated hexametrical genres, such as oracles, incantations, and laments, and gains new insight into their ritual performance, their early history, and how poets from Homer to Theocritus embedded or imitated these genres to enrich their own poems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 165mm x 246mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780197552971
• ISBN-10: 0197552978
• Artikelnr.: 61461328

Autorenporträt

Christopher Athanasious Faraone is the Edward Olson Professor of Classics at University of Chicago. His publications include Ancient Greek Love Magic, The Stanzaic Architecture of Archaic Greek Elegy, and The Getty Hexameters: Poetry, Magic and Mystery in Ancient Greek Selinous

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Some Preliminary Soundings
Chapter Three: The Chryses Episode as an Epichoric Hymn
Chapter Four: Circe's Instructions as a Sibylline Oracle
Chapter Five: Helen's Pharmakon as a Disguised Incantation
Chapter Six: Like Golden Aphrodite: Female Lament in the Iliad
Chapter Seven: Conclusions
Appendices:
Appendix A: Curse-Prayers in Hexameters
Appendix B: Necromantic Prayers in Hexameters
Appendix C: Empedocles Goês
Appendix D: Early Anthologies of Hexametrical Incantations
Appendix E: Instructional Oracles as a Frame for the Hesiodic Calendars
Bibliography