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Three Homeric hymns : to Apollo, Hermes, and Aphrodite : hymns 3, 4, and 5
These lively narrative poems, attributed in antiquity to Homer, are works of great charm. Composed for recitation at festivals in honour of the gods, they tell of Apollo's birth on the island of Delos and his foundation of the Delphic oracle; Hermes' invention of the lyre and theft of his brother Apollo's cattle; and Aphrodite's love affair with the mortal Anchises. This edition offers a new text of these oems. The Introduction discusses among other things the nature and purpose of the poems in general, their origins, their structure and themes. The Commentary brings out the individual character of each Hymn, by analyzing in depth its language and literary qualities, and also its religious and historical aspects. The aim is to make these Hymns more accessible to students of Greek literature, and help them to appreciate the poems more fully as major works of early Greek poetry.
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The structure of Sepedi traditional praise poem, a psalm (of the Bible) and a hymn (of Lutheran Church). Readers appear to recognise similarities in the structures of hymns, psalms, and ancient praise poems. This article examines whether the proposition is based on facts or truth. Similarity or difference will be realised by contrasting the strata of the three literary texts through the lens of the adapted narratological model. In the content of traditional praise poem, the poet uses the traditional events which are not extracted from his own source. When comparing psalm and hymnal content events, it is clear that they have similarities with traditional praise poem content. This is due to the fact that they are derived from the same source. Traditional praise poet recites the same topic of praising a chief, an animal or a thing, while a psalmist and a hymnist's topics are related to praising and praying to the Lord and not a chief or a thing. In this manner, a psalmist and a hymnist agree on their structure of the topics, while a traditional praise poet differs with them. A traditional poet praise ancestors and people by paying tribute at the graveyard, whereas a psalmist or hymnist prays to God by giving sacrifices and prayers in church. This helps us understand the differences in how a hymnist, psalmist, and traditional praise poet express reverence to their God or ancestors. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications This article seeks to examine two fields of study: African literary works and Biblical Study. It draws from scholars of Sepedi traditional praise poetry and sacred songs to re-read the Old Testament texts, in particular Psalms of David focusing on 2 Samuel 22:2-3 and hymnal song taken from Difela tsa Kereke, 'A re godiseng Morena' by Paul Gerhardt.
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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 intereset in recent years\" -- Publisher's description, page 4 of dust jacket.
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