Prayer-songs in archaic Greek melic poetry
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https://doi.org/10.25187/codex.v8i1.32363Keywords:
prayer-song, hymn, prayer, archaic and late archaic Greek melic poetryAbstract
This article aims at commenting a group of archaic Greek songs (7th-5th centuries bce), which presents as its fundamental characteristic the address of prayer and praise to a god, and are thus usually known as prayer-songs. Closely related to the practice of offering hymns and prayers as an element of cult to the gods, these compositions are the poetic expression of communication between mortal and divine worlds. The corpus herein studied presents 21 fragments from 7 different poets of the genre, melic poetry, and each of its songs is commented in view of three articulated aspects: form, because it distinguishes prayer-songs from other melic compositions; language, because we are dealing with poetry; and, finally, religion, because prayer-songs are in constant dialogue with myth and the cult of the divine.
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