Πολυώνυμοι - A Lexicon of the Divine Epithets in the Orphic Hymns
Polyṓnymoi - A Lexicon of the Divine Epithets in the Orphic Hymns
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- The Orphic Hymns consist of a prooemium and 87 hymns addressed to several deities in a late Orphic initiation of sorts. They were composed probably in Asia Minor during the second or third century CE. The bulk of these hymns are made up of divine epithets often linked together in chains of considerable length. The lexicon attempts to give a comprehensive account of the roughly 850 epithets, bringing together the most relevant information scattered in the scholarly literature and adding others from various sources (literary, epigraphic,The Orphic Hymns consist of a prooemium and 87 hymns addressed to several deities in a late Orphic initiation of sorts. They were composed probably in Asia Minor during the second or third century CE. The bulk of these hymns are made up of divine epithets often linked together in chains of considerable length. The lexicon attempts to give a comprehensive account of the roughly 850 epithets, bringing together the most relevant information scattered in the scholarly literature and adding others from various sources (literary, epigraphic, lexicographic, scholia etc.) in order to provide an overview of their usage and the main details of their models.…
Author: | José Marcos MacedoORCiD, Daniel KölliganORCiD, Pedro BarbieriORCiD |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-220613 |
Document Type: | Book |
Faculties: | Philosophische Fakultät (Histor., philolog., Kultur- und geograph. Wissensch.) / Institut für Altertumswissenschaften |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2021 |
Edition: | 1. Auflage |
Publisher: | Würzburg University Press |
Place of publication: | Würzburg |
ISBN: | 978-3-95826-154-9 |
ISBN: | 978-3-95826-155-6 |
Pagenumber: | 260 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.25972/WUP-978-3-95826-155-6 |
Sonstige beteiligte Institutionen: | Universidade de São Paulo, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras Clássicas, São Paulo, Brasil |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 48 Griechisch / 480 Hellenische Sprachen; klassisches Griechisch |
GND Keyword: | Orphica; Hymni; Beiname; Götter |
Tag: | Griechisch; Hymnen; Lexikon; Orphismus Greek language; epithets; hymns; orphism |
Release Date: | 2021/04/01 |
Note: | Parallel erschienen als Druckausgabe in Würzburg University Press, ISBN 978-3-95826-154-9, 28,90 EUR |
Licence (German): | CC BY-SA: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung, Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International |