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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 craftsmanship is put to the service of serious ethical thought. By means of parallels from Homer, Hesiod, and other Homeric hymns, as well as from later epideictic poetry and prose, the author seeks to show that the poet of the Hymn follows a coherent ''program'' whose intention is to praise Apollo from his birth on humble Delos to his establishment in a position of glory at Delphi. At the same time, the ''Delian'' and ''Pythian'' portions of the hymn are linked by a complex network of ideas bearing on the ethos of Apollo and the nature of his Delphic oracle. The study takes into account previous scholarship on the Hymn and provides appendices on ''The Question of Unity'' and ''The Cosmological Hierarchy and Apollo's Timai ''.

Comparative religion --- Classical Greek literature --- Antiquity --- Greece --- Homeric hymns --- Homerische hymnen --- Hymnes homériques --- Epic poetry, Greek --- Apollo (Greek deity) in literature --- Hymns, Greek (Classical) --- Poésie épique grecque --- Apollon (Divinité grecque) dans la littérature --- Hymnes grecs anciens --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Homer --- Authorship. --- Hymn to Apollo --- Apollo --- In literature --- Authorship --- 875 HOMERUS --- -Griekse literatuur--HOMERUS --- -Authorship --- Apollo (Greek deity) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- -875 HOMERUS Griekse literatuur--HOMERUS --- Griekse literatuur--HOMERUS --- -Hóiméar --- Hūmīrūs --- Homeros --- Homerus --- Gomer --- Omir --- Omer --- Omero --- Ho-ma --- Homa --- Homérosz --- האמער --- הומירוס --- הומר --- הומרוס --- هومر --- هوميروس --- 荷马 --- Ὅμηρος --- Гамэр --- Hamėr --- Омир --- Homero --- 호메로스 --- Homerosŭ --- Homērs --- Homeras --- Хомер --- ホメーロス --- ホメロス --- Гомер --- Homeri --- Hema --- Pseudo-Homer --- Pseudo Omero --- -Homer --- Homère --- Poésie épique grecque --- Apollon (Divinité grecque) dans la littérature --- 875 HOMERUS Griekse literatuur--HOMERUS --- Homeric hymns. --- Hymn to Apollo. --- Apollonhymnus --- Hymnus in Apollinem --- Inni omerici --- Homērikoi hymnoi --- Hymni Homerici --- Hóiméar --- Literature. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Greek hymns --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Homer. --- Apellōn --- Apollōn --- Helios --- Απολλων --- Απελλων --- In literature. --- Hymnus in Apollinem (Homerus) --- Hymni (Homerus) --- Hymni (Homer) --- Hymns, Greek (Classical) - History and criticism --- Apollo - (Deity) - In literature --- Homer - Authorship --- Apollo - (Deity)