The Homeric Hymn to Hermes

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NOTES TO THIS EDITION
This book is directed at researchers and advanced students who
seek information about a point of detail in the Homeric Hymn to
Hermes or an unfolding interpretation of the whole composition. Since I started my research, readers have beneited from a
new student-level commentary on the hymn (Richardson 2010),
two more detailed commentaries (Vergados 2013, Schenck zu
Schweinsberg 2017), and two valuable book-length discussions (Jaillard 2007, Nobili 2011).1
These works are signs of the
poem’s interest, but they also raise the question of what I hope
to contribute, especially in comparison to Vergados’ commentary, which is on a similar scale. Naturally there are occasions
where Vergados and I independently found the same parallels
or thought the same scholarship worth citing. But comparison
will reveal diferences of opinion or emphasis in the majority
of lines, including on matters of dating, original performance
context, and the themes picked out in our introductory essays.
I have more to say about the last third of the poem, and have
taken a diferent editorial approach by re-examining the manuscripts and being substantially more critical of transmitted
readings. While we are both interested in lexicography and the
formulaic system, I have replicated less information from dictionaries, and have given more space to interpretation, using
diferent methodologies including (for example) politeness theory and psycholinguistics. I have tried to avoid pointing out
every place where our work diverges, while still alerting readers
to enough points of disagreement to stimulate future debate.
At this juncture, I should give readers an essential piece
of advice about navigating the commentary. I ind it more
Hereafter I will abbreviate the hymn as Herm., and refer to editions and
commentaries by author’s name only, where this is possible without confusion; these can be found asterisked in the bibliography. I reviewed Schenck
zu Schweinsberg in Thomas (2019).

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