Apollonius’ Argonautica and the Homeric Hymns

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.

• AcknowledgmentsNote on Texts, Translations, and AbbreviationsIntroduction1 Topic and Status Quaestionis2 The Homeric Hymns: An Overview3 Method and Terminology4 A Survey of Exemplary Intertexts from the Homeric Hymns5 Outline of ChaptersPart1 The Argonautica As Epic Hymn1 A Diachronic Reading of the Argonautica’s Hymnic Frame1 The Introit2 The Envoi3 Rereading the Introit in Light of the Envoi4 Conclusion2 Heroization and Generic Hybridity1 The Duality of the Concept of the Hero in Greek Culture2 Hero Cult and Immortalization in the Argonautica3 The Duality of the Hero and Generic Hybridity4 Literary Precedents for Apollonius’ Generic Experiment5 In the Footsteps of Heracles6 ConclusionPart2 The Apollonian Narrator’s Hymnic Voice3 Narratological Features With Precedent in the Homeric Hymns1 The Overt Narrator2 The Narrator’s Piety3 Etiology4 Further Hymnic Techniques5 Conclusion4 Hymnic Moments within The Epic1 Contagious Hymnody2 Other Apostrophes3 Hymnic Narratization4 Orpheus’ Hymn to Apollo: The Thynias Episode (Arg. 2.669–719)5 ConclusionConclusion1 Major Findings and Directions for Future Research2 Final ReflectionsAppendix: Divine Epithets in the ArgonauticaGlossary of Hymnic TerminologyBibliographyIndex