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Apollonius’ Argonautica and the Homeric Hymns

A Study in Hymnody, Hero Cult, and Homeric Reception

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Apollonius represents a crucial link in the epic tradition spanning Homer and Vergil, but arrestingly, his epic Argonautica rather begins and ends in the style of a Homeric Hymn. This book contends that Apollonius thus frames his poem as an innovative synthesis of both branches of his Homeric inheritance: an “epic hymn” that simultaneously commemorates its protagonists’ glorious deeds and venerates them in their religious capacity as divinized cult heroes. This study—the first-ever in-depth investigation of Apollonius’ profound engagement with the hymnic Homer—promises to reorient scholarly understandings of the Argonautica’s novel narrative strategies, its inclusive conception of heroism, and indeed, its very generic affiliations.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-12-06
Mått155 x 235 x 35 mm
Vikt884 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDel 489 i Mnemosyne, Supplements
Antal sidor442
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004715103

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AcknowledgmentsNote on Texts, Translations, and AbbreviationsIntroduction1 Topic and Status Quaestionis2 The Homeric Hymns: An Overview3 Method and Terminology4 A Survey of Exemplary Intertexts from the Homeric Hymns5 Outline of ChaptersPart1 The Argonautica As Epic Hymn1 A Diachronic Reading of the Argonautica’s Hymnic Frame1 The Introit2 The Envoi3 Rereading the Introit in Light of the Envoi4 Conclusion2 Heroization and Generic Hybridity1 The Duality of the Concept of the Hero in Greek Culture2 Hero Cult and Immortalization in the Argonautica3 The Duality of the Hero and Generic Hybridity4 Literary Precedents for Apollonius’ Generic Experiment5 In the Footsteps of Heracles6 ConclusionPart2 The Apollonian Narrator’s Hymnic Voice3 Narratological Features With Precedent in the Homeric Hymns1 The Overt Narrator2 The Narrator’s Piety3 Etiology4 Further Hymnic Techniques5 Conclusion4 Hymnic Moments within The Epic1 Contagious Hymnody2 Other Apostrophes3 Hymnic Narratization4 Orpheus’ Hymn to Apollo: The Thynias Episode (Arg. 2.669–719)5 ConclusionConclusion1 Major Findings and Directions for Future Research2 Final ReflectionsAppendix: Divine Epithets in the ArgonauticaGlossary of Hymnic TerminologyBibliographyIndex