Apollonius’ Argonautica and the Homeric Hymns

A Study in Hymnody, Hero Cult, and Homeric Reception

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Brian McPhee
Apollonius represents a crucial link in the epic tradition spanning Homer and Vergil, but arrestingly, his epic Argonautica rather begins and ends in the style of a Homeric Hymn. This book contends that Apollonius thus frames his poem as an innovative synthesis of both branches of his Homeric inheritance: an “epic hymn” that simultaneously commemorates its protagonists’ glorious deeds and venerates them in their religious capacity as divinized cult heroes. This study—the first-ever in-depth investigation of Apollonius’ profound engagement with the hymnic Homer—promises to reorient scholarly understandings of the Argonautica’s novel narrative strategies, its inclusive conception of heroism, and indeed, its very generic affiliations.
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2025
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02 Dec 2024
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06 Dec 2024
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Brian McPhee, Ph.D. (2020), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is an Assistant Professor in Bilkent University's Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas. He has published widely on Greek and Roman poetry, with an especial focus on Hellenistic epic.
Acknowledgments
Note on Texts, Translations, and Abbreviations

Introduction
 1 Topic and Status Quaestionis
 2 The Homeric Hymns: An Overview
 3 Method and Terminology
 4 A Survey of Exemplary Intertexts from the Homeric Hymns
 5 Outline of Chapters

Part1 The Argonautica As Epic Hymn



1 A Diachronic Reading of the Argonautica’s Hymnic Frame
 1 The Introit
 2 The Envoi
 3 Rereading the Introit in Light of the Envoi
 4 Conclusion

2 Heroization and Generic Hybridity
 1 The Duality of the Concept of the Hero in Greek Culture
 2 Hero Cult and Immortalization in the Argonautica
 3 The Duality of the Hero and Generic Hybridity
 4 Literary Precedents for Apollonius’ Generic Experiment
 5 In the Footsteps of Heracles
 6 Conclusion

Part2 The Apollonian Narrator’s Hymnic Voice



3 Narratological Features With Precedent in the Homeric Hymns
 1 The Overt Narrator
 2 The Narrator’s Piety
 3 Etiology
 4 Further Hymnic Techniques
 5 Conclusion

4 Hymnic Moments within The Epic
 1 Contagious Hymnody
 2 Other Apostrophes
 3 Hymnic Narratization
 4 Orpheus’ Hymn to Apollo: The Thynias Episode (Arg. 2.669–719)
 5 Conclusion

Conclusion
 1 Major Findings and Directions for Future Research
 2 Final Reflections

Appendix: Divine Epithets in the Argonautica
Glossary of Hymnic Terminology
Bibliography
Index
This book will be required reading for scholars and postgraduates studying Hellenistic poetry, epic, and hymnody. Academic libraries should also carry it for specialists in Greek religion and Ptolemaic history.
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出版社:
Brill
Language:
英语
Extent:
xiv, 441 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004715387

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