5/26/2023 0 Comments Hymns to apolloThen among the gods have permanent and irreversible consequences now and explain why the world is the way it is. “ Each can be said to take place in the time of origins that Eliade has called illud tempus. As a genre, she argues, these hymns refine and affirm This detailed literary and rhetorical analysis of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo treats the poem as a unified work of art in which sophisticated poetic. This Olympian order, Clay argues, generates a framework that conceptually links the four major hymns, each one recounting a critical chapter in the mythological history of the Olympians. Responding to and refining a traditional “ cosmic history” rather than, specifically, the Theogony, even though all these texts, including the various Homeric hymns, may be In the long and insightful chapter on the Hymn to Apollo with which she begins her 1989 work, The Politics of Olympus, Jenny Strauss Clay writes that the Homeric hymnist situates Apollo “ as a critical component in the constitution and preservation of the Olympian order.” 1 She sees the hymn as having a temporal priority within the divine history of Olympus that “ emerges in the course of the narrative and forms an essential key to the interpretation of the poem.” 2 Furthermore, Homeric epic presupposes that Olympian order, established in the Succession Myth of Hesiod’s
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