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Author Thom, Johan C

Title Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus Text, Translation, and Commentary
Published Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (223 p.)
Series Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity ; v.33
Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity
Contents Cover -- Titel -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- I. Introduction -- 1. Author and Date -- 2. Genre, Style, Function, and Setting -- 3. Composition -- 4. Religion and Philosophy in the Hymn to Zeus -- 5. Transmission of the Text -- II. Text and Translation -- Plates -- Text -- Translation -- III. Commentary -- Invocation: Praise of Zeus (vv. 1-6) -- Argument: Zeus' Rule and Human Recalcitrance (vv. 7-31) -- Prayer: Deliverance and Insight (vv. 32-39) -- Bibliography -- 1. Cleanthes: Editions, translations, and studies of the Hymn to Zeus -- 2. Other ancient texts
3. Other scholarly publications -- Indices -- 1. Index of ancient texts -- 2. Index of subjects and names -- 3. Index of Greek terms
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Zeus (Greek deity) -- Poetry
Cleanthes, 331 B.C.-232 B.C. Hymn to Zeus
Zeus (Greek deity) -- In literature
Zeus (Greek deity)
SUBJECT Hymn to Zeus (Cleanthes) fast
Subject Literature
Genre/Form Poetry
Form Electronic book
ISBN 316158676X
9783161586767