Homeric Hymn to Hermes
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Word Count
150,000 words, Guess
Page Count
600 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-10110701204X
- ISBN-139781107012042
- Library of Congress Control Number2019059897
- OCLC Control Number1135091992
- Better World Books9781107012042
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL29492500M
Classifications
- LCCPA4025.H85H66 2020
- LCCPA4025.H85 H66 2020
Description
"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"--
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