OLIVER THOMAS OLIVER.THOMAS@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Associate Professor
Hermetically unsealed: lyric genres in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes
Thomas, O.
Authors
Contributors
F. Budelmann
Editor
T.R. Phillips
Editor
Abstract
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 logic: the Hymn to Hermes is itself bantering intertextually with the Homeric Hymn to Apollo; it alludes to the fact that a komos can involve both praise-poetry and (post-)sympotic erotic songs. Moreover, Apollo’s first interaction with the lyre leads him to engage Hermes in a game of verbal banter, which suggests that this ability of the lyre to unite contrasting performance-types will continue under his patronage. In this sense, the Hymn implicitly reflects on its own power to reshape the audience’s attitudes towards music.
Citation
Thomas, O. (2018). Hermetically unsealed: lyric genres in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. In F. Budelmann, & T. Phillips (Eds.), Textual events: performance and the lyric in early Greece. Oxford University Press
Acceptance Date | Sep 1, 2016 |
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Publication Date | Mar 22, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Apr 18, 2018 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Book Title | Textual events: performance and the lyric in early Greece |
ISBN | 9780198805823 |
Keywords | Homeric Hymns, Hermes, Apollo, music, genre, lyric poetry |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/921179 |
Related Public URLs | https://global.oup.com/academic/product/textual-events-9780198805823 |
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