Hexametrical Genres from Homer to Theocritus
Publisher: OUP USA
Date of Publication: 5 January 2022
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Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9780197552971 |
| ISBN10: | 0197552978 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 288 pages |
| Size: | 243x164x22 mm |
| Weight: | 538 g |
| Language: | English |
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Long description:
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
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
