Hermetically unsealed: lyric genres in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes
The Hymn to Hermes offers a late archaic or early classical viewpoint on genre in lyric poetry. It compares hymns and theogonies to bantering songs at symposia, apparently in a paradox grounded in Hermes’ ability to control transfers across firm boundaries. However, the comparisons have a latent log...
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Oxford University Press
2018
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51233/ |