The Homeric Hymns

This book will succeed in stimulating interest in this important group of poems. Readers less familiar with the scholarship might profit from reading the general essays in Part II before the specialized essays in Part I.

• INTRODUCTION ; 1. Modern Scholarship on the Homeric Hymns: Foundational Issues ; PART I ; 2. The First Homeric Hymn to Dionysus ; 3. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Some Central Questions Revisited ; 4. The Homeric Hymn to Apollo: The Question of Unity ; 5. The Homeric Hymn to Hermes: Humour and Epiphany ; 6. An Erotic Aristeia: The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and its Relation to the Iliadic Tradition ; 7. The Seventh Homeric Hymn to Dionysus: An Epiphanic Sketch ; 8. The Homeric Hymn to Pan ; PART II ; 9. The Collection of Homeric Hymns: From the Seventh to the Third Centuries BC ; 10. Homeric and un-Homeric Hexameter Hymns: A Question of Type ; 11. The Homeric Hymns as Genre ; 12. Children of Zeus in the Homeric Hymns: Generational Succession ; 13. The Earliest Phases in the Reception of the Homeric Hymns ; 14. The Homeric Hymns as Poetic Offerings: Musical and Ritual Relationships with the Gods