Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns

Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns examines the forms and functions of narratives in Ancient Greek hymns, in the contexts of the hymn genre and the development of ancient Greek narrative literature.

About the author

Andrew Faulkner, D.Phil. (2005), Oxford University, is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Waterloo. He has published on Greek poetry and hymnography from the archaic period to Late Antiquity.

Owen Hodkinson, D.Phil. (2009), Oxford University, is Lecturer in Greek and Roman Cultures at the University of Leeds. He has published several articles on Greek narrative and epistolary literature, and co-edited Epistolary Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature (Brill 2013).

Contributors are: Ewen Bowie, Michael Brumbaugh, Nicola Devlin, William D. Furley, Miguel Herrero de Jáuregi, Anne-France Morand, Ivana Petrovic, Nicholas Richardson, Susan A. Stephens, and Athanassios Vergados.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Faulkner
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.08.2015
• EAN: 9789004288133
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28813-3
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day