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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826321303321

Autore

Olson S. Douglas

Titolo

The "Homeric hymn to Aphrodite" and related texts : text, translation and commentary / / by S. Douglas Olson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : de Gruyter, 2012

ISBN

9786613940292

3-11-026074-3

1-283-62784-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Collana

Texte und Kommentare : eine altertumswissenschaftliche Reihe, , 0563-3087 ; ; Bd. 39

Classificazione

FH 20051

Disciplina

883/.01

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Anchises, Aeneas, and the Aeneidae -- Date of composition -- Poetic affiliations of the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite -- Aphrodite and sexuality -- The metrics of the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite -- Textual transmission -- Critical text and translation: Hymn 5: to Aphrodite -- Hymn 6: to Aphrodite -- Hymn 9: to Artemis -- Hymn 10: to Aphrodite -- Hymn 11: to Athena -- Hymn 12: to Hera -- Hymn 24: to Hestia -- Hymn 27: to Artemis -- Hymn 28: to Athena -- Hymn 29: to Hestia -- Commentary: Hymn 5: to Aphrodite -- Hymn 6: to Aphrodite -- Hymn 9: to Artemis -- Hymn 10: to Aphrodite -- Hymn 11: to Athena -- Hymn 12: to Hera -- Hymn 24: to Hestia -- Hymn 27: to Artemis -- Hymn 28: to Athena -- Hymn 29: to Hestia.

Sommario/riassunto

The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (600s BCE?) tells the story of a brief encounter between the goddess of love and the cowherd Anchises, which led to the birth of the Trojan hero Aeneas. Less than 300 lines long, it is among the shortest of the so-called ‘major Homeric Hymns’. However, it is also richly and beautifully conceived and narrated, and of enormous importance for the Greek mythology and the history of Greek religion. Olson offers a complete new text of the poem and of ten related ‘minor Hymns’, based on a fresh examination of the manuscripts; a full critical apparatus; and a translation. The work is completed by a substantial introduction, which treats inter alia the



stories of Aeneas, the problem of dating early Greek epic, and the nature of the connections between the Hymn to Aphrodite and the Homeric and Hesiodic poems. Olson furthermore offers a substantial, narratologically-oriented commentary.