The Homeric hymn to Hermes

by Thomas, Oliver R. H., (Oliver Robert Havelock)

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Title Statements

Full title :The Homeric hymn to Hermes / edited with introduction, translation, and commentary by Oliver Thomas.

Summary

"The Hymn to Hermes was composed by an unknown poet whose virtuoso deployment of formulaic traditions shows that he was a rhapsode - one of the highly trained and emotive live performers of epic (both new and, increasingly, canonical) in ancient Greece.1 He may well have performed his composition multiple times in different forms. However, as it is transmitted (see below, 5.1), we have evidence only for minor, localized rephrasing, and not for major recasting of the story. Hence we can consider our text to derive in its essence from one act of transcription, and to analyse when and for what circumstances the transcribed poem might have been designed. I examine the date in this section, and the circumstances in the next"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:grc
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:x, 532 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781107012042, 110701204X
oclc:on1135091992
LC Classification:PA4025.H85
Dewey Decimal:883/.01

IntroductIon -- Dating the Hymn to Hermes -- Locating the Hymn to Hermes -- Generating charis -- Influence on Later Texts -- The Manuscript Tradition and This Edition -- Sigla -- Text and translation -- Commentary.

Subjects

Epic poetry Epic poetry, Greek Epic poetry, Greek -- Translations into… Hermes, (Greek deity) Hymn to Hermes Hymns Hymns, Greek (Classical) Hymns, Greek (Classical) -- Translation… Poésie épique Poetry