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Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus
Johan Carl Thom
其他書名
Text, Translation, and Commentary
出版
Mohr Siebeck
, 2005
主題
History / Ancient / General
Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General
Religion / Judaism / History
Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
Social Science / Jewish Studies
ISBN
3161486609
9783161486609
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0T5iAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Cleanthes'
Hymn to Zeus
is a popular philosophical text combining both traditional, literary and religious motifs with philosophical ideas. The main problem addressed in the
Hymn
is the disorder caused by bad people who disregard Zeus' governance of the world. The
Hymn
contains a genuine prayer for divine assistance to enable human beings to attain insight into the way the world is governed, and at the same time serves as a reminder and exhortation for people to recognize and live in accordance with the divine world-order. Such a way of life is characterized as a life of continuous praise. This book, the first complete monograph to be devoted to the
Hymn to Zeus
by the Stoic philosopher Cleanthes (ca. 331-230 BCE), contains a new critical text edition and English translation of the Hymn. In addition to the usual questions of authorship and date, Johan Thom analyses the composition, genre and function of the poem in depth, arguing that the Hymn should be considered a genuine prayer and that it was intended for a non-specialist audience. In the line-by-line philological commentary, attention is paid to the literary, philosophical, and religious aspects of the hymn. It should therefore be of interest to classical philologists, philosophers, as well as scholars of Hellenistic and Greco-Roman religions.