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From Delos to Delphi

From Delos to Delphi

Miller, A. M.

Paperback

Series: Studies in the History of Christian Thought, Book 93

Literary CriticismAncient History General

ISBN10: 9004076743
ISBN13: 9789004076747
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jun 1 1986
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
This detailed literary and rhetorical analysis of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo treats the poem as a unified work of art in which sophisticated poetic craftsmanship is put to the service of serious ethical thought.
By means of parallels from Homer, Hesiod, and other Homeric hymns, as well as from later epideictic poetry and prose, the author seeks to show that the poet of the Hymn follows a coherent ''program'' whose intention is to praise Apollo from his birth on humble Delos to his establishment in a position of glory at Delphi. At the same time, the ''Delian'' and ''Pythian'' portions of the hymn are linked by a complex network of ideas bearing on the ethos of Apollo and the nature of his Delphic oracle.
The study takes into account previous scholarship on the Hymn and provides appendices on ''The Question of Unity'' and ''The Cosmological Hierarchy and Apollo's Timai''.

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