- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 266 pages)
- Summary
- "This book focuses on the evidence for short, non-epic hexametrical genres as a way of gaining new insights into the variety of their often ritual performance, their early history and how poets from Homer to Theocritus embedded or imitated these genres to enrich their own poems, by playing with and sometimes overturning the generic expectations of their audiences or readers. In doing so it combines literary and ritual studies to produce a rich and detailed picture of a number of genres performed in temples, such as hymns and laments for Adonis, or in other spaces likewise dedicated to traditional speech-acts, such as epithalamia, oracles or incantations. It deals primarily with the recovery of a number of lost or under-appreciated hexametrical genres, which are usually left out of modern taxonomies of archaic hexametrical poetry, either because they survive only in fragments or because the earliest evidence for them dates to the classical period and beyond. Of central importance will be the surviving hexametrical poets, especially those of archaic and Hellenistic date, who embed or imitate traditional hexametrical genres of shorter duration either to give a recognizable internal structure to a shorter poem or to an episode or speech within a longer one"--
- Uniform Title
- Hexametrical genres from Homer to Theocritus (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Hexametrical genres from Homer to Theocritus (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-246) and indexes.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2020043988
- OCLC
- ssj0002509000
- Author
Faraone, Christopher A.
- Title
Hexametrical genres from Homer to Theocritus [electronic resource] / Christopher Athanasious Faraone.
- Imprint
New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-246) and indexes.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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