Hymns

E490961

ancient Greek literature poetry collection religious poetry

Hymns is a collection of learned, stylistically refined religious poems by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus that rework traditional Greek myth and cult in an innovative, Alexandrian manner.

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Label	Occurrences
Hymns canonical	1

Statements (39)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Greek literature ⓘ poetry collection ⓘ religious poetry ⓘ
associatedWith	Library of Alexandria NERFINISHED ⓘ
audience	educated Hellenistic readers ⓘ
author	Callimachus NERFINISHED ⓘ
canonicalStatus	major work of Callimachus ⓘ
culturalContext	Ptolemaic Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ
genre	didactic poetry ⓘ hymn ⓘ
influenced	Augustan poets NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman poetry ⓘ later Greek hymnographic tradition ⓘ
influencedBy	Archaic Greek lyric poetry ⓘ Homeric Hymns NERFINISHED ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
literaryInnovation	reworking of traditional Greek cult practice ⓘ reworking of traditional Greek myth ⓘ
literaryPeriod	Hellenistic period NERFINISHED ⓘ
literaryTechnique	allusion ⓘ intertextuality ⓘ learned references ⓘ narrative digression ⓘ
meter	hexameter ⓘ
movement	Alexandrian poetry ⓘ
placeOfOrigin	Alexandria NERFINISHED ⓘ
preservation	transmitted in medieval manuscripts ⓘ
religiousContext	Greek polytheism ⓘ
religiousFunction	literary rather than cultic performance ⓘ
studiedIn	Hellenistic poetry scholarship ⓘ classical philology ⓘ
style	Alexandrian manner ⓘ learned ⓘ stylistically refined ⓘ
theme	cult foundations ⓘ etiological myths ⓘ praise of gods ⓘ
tradition	Greek cult ⓘ Greek myth ⓘ

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