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The Orphic Hymns: Poetry and Genre, with a Critical Text and Translation(486 Mnemosyne, Supplements)

The Orphic Hymns: Poetry and Genre, with a Critical Text and Translation(486 Mnemosyne, Supplements)

          
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The Orphic Hymns, a collection of invocations to the complete Greek pantheon, have reached us without explicit information about the contexts of their composition and performance. Combining a new critical edition and translation of the hymns with an in-depth study of the poetic strategies they employ and the forms of Greek poetry they draw upon, this book explores what the hymns can tell us about themselves. Through the use of allusion and figures that look to the earliest Greek poetry, the hymns present themselves as a text to be heard and meditated upon in performance, and as Orpheus’ summative revelation on the nature and unity of the divine realm.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Text and Translation Introduction to the Text Sigla The Orphic Hymns Notes on the text Synopsis of Variant Readings 1 Scholarship and reception  1.1 The occult tradition  1.2 The question of authorship from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries  1.3 Criticism of the eighteenth century, the Göttingen School  1.4 The question of function  1.5 Nineteenth-century criticism: Scepticism and reaction  1.6 Inscriptional evidence and the ritual function of the hymns  1.7 Otto Kern and the location of the OH community  1.8 Theories of authorship  1.9 Recent scholarship 2 The structure of the collection and the hymns  2.1 The collection  2.2 Formal features of the hymns: epiclesis, eulogia and euche  2.3 Conclusion: The structure of the collection and the hymns 3 Sound and patterning  3.1 Phonic repetition  3.2 Antithetical predication  3.3 Formal antithesis, structural symmetry  3.4 Conclusion: Sound and patterning 4 Formulae  4.1 Formulae within the collection  4.2 Formulae as intertexts  4.3 Conclusion: Formulae 5 The generic and poetic contexts of the Orphic Hymns  5.1 Greek hymns and catalogues of predications  5.2 Sound, patterning, harmony  5.3 Orphic hymns  5.4 Generic contexts  5.5 Function  5.6 Composition Conclusion Appendix1: Manuscripts and works cited in the critical apparatus Appendix2.1: Prayer structures Appendix2.2: Invocations Appendix2.3: Eulogia: Verse types and longer predications Appendix3.1: Phonic repetition Appendix3.2: Antithetical predication Appendix3.3: Formal antithesis, structural symmetry Appendix4.1: Formulae and phrasal parallels Appendix4.2: Formulae: Index of Authors Appendix4.3: Formulae: Quantitative analysis Bibliography Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789004714076
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 674
  • Series Title: 486 Mnemosyne, Supplements
  • Weight: 1155 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9004714073
  • Publisher Date: 05 Dec 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Poetry and Genre, with a Critical Text and Translation
  • Width: 155 mm


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