Apollonius’ Argonautica and the Homeric Hymns

A Study in Hymnody, Hero Cult, and Homeric Reception

Brian McPhee (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

456 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
9789004715103 (ISBN)

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This book offers the first in-depth study of Apollonius’ profound engagement with the Homeric Hymns, which are revealed as models of fundamental importance for understanding the Argonautica’s conception of heroism, its innovative narrative techniques, and even its very generic affiliations.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	20.02.2025
Reihe/Serie	Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 489
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	884 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9789004715103 / 9789004715103
Zustand	Neuware