The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite by Andrew Faulkner

Chapell’s lucid and well-grounded contribution on the Homeric Hymn to Apollo (59–81) presents itself as a refutation of Clay’s arguments in favor of the hymn’s internal unity and coherence, and consequently of its Panhellenic outlook (The Politics of Olympus, 18–19, 47–9, 92–4). Richardson’s essay on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter (44–58) is conceived as an update of his 1978 edition in light of the subsequent contributions.] 349 a–e on the first Homeric Hymn, which would make Dionysus the earliest hymn of the collection (33–4). With regard to the episode of Hera enchained on her throne by Hephaestus, particularly attractive is his hypothesis of a dependence of Alcaeus fr. West’s contribution] complements his Loeb edition (Homeric Hymns, Apocrypha, Lives, Cambridge MA, 2003, 26–31), by providing a reconstruction of the mythical content of fragments A–D. West in his article on the fragmentary first Homeric Hymn (29–43, esp. 4–8 to the first Homeric Hymn to Dionysus (A 2–6 West), he posits a knowledge by Callimachus of an ordered collection of hymns where Dionysus came first. On the basis of the probable allusion of Call. Faulkner persuasively illustrates the influence of specific passages from Demeter, Apollo, Hermes and Aphrodite on the Callimachean hymns (with the exception of Delos). The collection dates back at least to the third century A.D., a terminus post quem given by the eighth hymn, here taken as a later Neoplatonic, rather than an Orphic, addition (p. Faulkner, author of both a history of modern scholarship on the Homeric Hymns (1–25) and a chapter on the constitution of the collection (175–205).įaulkner’s analysis focuses on the terminology employed in scholiastic and literary sources that refer to the hymns as a corpus. The term “collaboration” fits particularly well within the context of a fertile debate ongoing throughout the book. This collection of essays is the result of a collaboration of leading scholars and young researchers in the field of archaic Greek literature and oral poetics. Reviewed by Marco Perale, University of Minnesota Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Andrew Faulkner, ed., The Homeric Hymns: Interpretative Essays.

The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite by Andrew Faulkner