Lecture Terms and Questions

September 21, 2000

Homeric Hymns	hymnos	Muses = Daughters of Mnemosyne
mnesomai ("I will remember/memorialize")	agalma (pl. agalmata)	timê
epithet	attributive/mythological section	chaire (related to "charis")
aetiological myth	Delos, Delphia

1. What does the aetiological myth of the first half of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo explain? The second half?
   
2. How does a hymn give timê to a god, i.e., how does it perform an agalma?

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