Polyónymoi. A Lexicon of the Divine Epithets in the Orphic Hymns.

José Marcos Macedo, Daniel Kölligan, Pedro Barbieri.

ISBN 10: 395826154X / ISBN 13: 9783958261549

Published by Würzburg, Würzburg University Press, 2021

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260 pp., very good and clean, text in Ancient Greek - English, (Orphica, Hymni), Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 520 original softcover (no dust jacket),

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Polyónymoi. A Lexicon of the Divine Epithets in the Orphic Hymns.
• Publisher: Würzburg, Würzburg University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 395826154X
• ISBN 13: 9783958261549
• Binding: Soft cover
• Weight: 520 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Altphilologie

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Synopsis

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.