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Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns: Diachronic Development in Epic Diction

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Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns: Diachronic Development in Epic Diction - Janko, Richard
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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 ...

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Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns: Diachronic Development in Epic Diction 2007, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521035651

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Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns: Diachronic Development in Epic Diction 1982, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521238694

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