Hymny o hymnach, czyli o poezji hymnicznej w świetle jej własnych świadectw : na przykładzie homeryckiego Corpus Hymnorum

Abstract

The author of the article analyses the poems from the Homeric Corpus Hymnorum in which the noun hymnos or the verb hymnein are used. In this manner, he seeks to establish whether the authors of the hymns viewed aoide and aeidein as, by and large, synonymous with the above terms or whether their usage points to some genealogical distinction between these. Given the scarcity of the evidence and its problematic chronology, drawing straightforward conclusions is difficult. The author of the article tentatively accepts the thesis that for the hymnal poet aoide constitutes a special extension of hymnos to becomes its pars epica, ie. its epic development.