Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns: Diachronic Development in Epic Diction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521035651)

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.

Author: Richard Janko
ISBN-10: 0521035651
ISBN-13: 9780521035651
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/26/2007
Pages: 340
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.76d