The Homeric Hymns Interpretative Essays

This is the first collection of scholarly essays on the Homeric Hymns, a corpus of 33 hexameter poems celebrating gods that were probably recited at religious festivals, among other possible performance venues, and were frequently attributed in antiquity to Homer. After a general introduction to modern scholarship on the Homeric Hymns, the essays of the first part of the book examine in detail aspects of the longer narrative poems in the collection, while those of the second part give critical attention to the shorter poems and to the collection as a whole. The contributors to the volume present a wide range of stimulating views on the study of the Homeric Hymns, which have attracted much interest in recent years.

1 - Modern Scholarship on the Homeric Hymns: Foundational Issues
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
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