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    Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus

    Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus by Faraone, Christopher Athanasious;

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    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 5 January 2022

    • ISBN 9780197552971
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages280 pages
    • Size 246x165x30 mm
    • Weight 567 g
    • Language English
    • 328

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    Short description:

    The book discusses short, non-epic, and under-appreciated hexametrical genres, such as oracles, incantations, and laments, and gains new insight into their ritual performance, their early history, and how poets from Homer to Theocritus embedded or imitated these genres to enrich their own poems.

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    In Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus, Christopher Faraone discusses a number of short hexametrical genres such as oracles, incantations and laments that do not easily fit the generic models provided by the extant poetry of Hesiod and Homer. In the process, he gives us new insight into their ritual performance, their early history, and how poets from Homer to Theocritus embedded or imitated these genres to enrich their own hexametrical poems--by playing with and sometimes overturning the generic expectations of their audiences or readers.

    Christopher Faraone combines literary and ritual studies to produce a rich and detailed picture of hexametrical genres performed publicly for gods, such as hymns or laments for Adonis, or other that were performed more privately, such as epithalamia, oracles, or incantations. This volume deals primarily with the recovery of lost or under-appreciated hexametrical genres, which are often left out of modern taxonomies of archaic hexametrical poetry, either because they survive only in fragments or because the earliest evidence for them dates to the classical period.

    Although primarily directed toward specialists, the tight organization and meticulous argumentation make the book accessible to nonspecialists in related fields.

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    Table of Contents:

    Chapter One: Introduction
    Chapter Two: Some Preliminary Soundings
    Chapter Three: The Chryses Episode as an Epichoric Hymn
    Chapter Four: Circe's Instructions as a Sibylline Oracle
    Chapter Five: Helen's Pharmakon as a Disguised Incantation
    Chapter Six: Like Golden Aphrodite: Female Lament in the Iliad
    Chapter Seven: Conclusions
    Appendices:
    Appendix A: Curse-Prayers in Hexameters
    Appendix B: Necromantic Prayers in Hexameters
    Appendix C: Empedocles Go?s
    Appendix D: Early Anthologies of Hexametrical Incantations
    Appendix E: Instructional Oracles as a Frame for the Hesiodic Calendars
    Bibliography

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