Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns by Richard Janko
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.
Janko, Richard: - Richard Janko is Gerald F. Else Distinguished University Professor of Classical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. His publications include as translator Aristotle: Poetics (1987); as editor The Iliad. A Commentary. 4: Books 13-16 (1992); and Philodemus: the Aesthetic Works. Vol. I/1: On Poems Book 1 (2000) and Books 3-4 (2011)
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521035651 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521035651 |
| Title | Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns |
| Author | Richard Janko |
| Series | Cambridge Classical Studies |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2007-03-26 |
| Number of pages | 340 |
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