Author: HomerusPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521451582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book is specifically designed for upper-level students of these major narrative works of early Greek poetry.
Three Homeric Hymns
Author: HomerusPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521451582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book is specifically designed for upper-level students of these major narrative works of early Greek poetry.
Three Homeric Hymns
Author: Nicholas RichardsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316224252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
These lively narrative poems, attributed in antiquity to Homer, are works of great charm. Composed for recitation at festivals in honour of the gods, they tell of Apollo's birth on the island of Delos and his foundation of the Delphic oracle; Hermes' invention of the lyre and theft of his brother Apollo's cattle; and Aphrodite's love affair with the mortal Anchises. This edition offers a new text of these poems. The Introduction discusses among other things the nature and purpose of the poems in general, their origins, their structure and themes. The Commentary brings out the individual character of each Hymn, by analyzing in depth its language and literary qualities, and also its religious and historical aspects. The aim is to make these Hymns more accessible to students of Greek literature, and help them to appreciate the poems more fully as major works of early Greek poetry.
The Homeric hymns
Author: Thomas William AllenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gods, Greek
Languages : id
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Homeric Hymns
Author: Diane J. RayorPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520957822
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The Homeric Hymns have survived for two and a half millennia because of their captivating stories, beautiful language, and religious significance. Well before the advent of writing in Greece, they were performed by traveling bards at religious events, competitions, banquets, and festivals. These thirty-four poems invoking and celebrating the gods of ancient Greece raise questions that humanity still struggles with—questions about our place among others and in the world. Known as "Homeric" because they were composed in the same meter, dialect, and style as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, these hymns were created to be sung aloud. In this superb translation by Diane J. Rayor, which deftly combines accuracy and poetry, the ancient music of the hymns comes alive for the modern reader. Here is the birth of Apollo, god of prophecy, healing, and music and founder of Delphi, the most famous oracular shrine in ancient Greece. Here is Zeus, inflicting upon Aphrodite her own mighty power to cause gods to mate with humans, and here is Demeter rescuing her daughter Persephone from the underworld and initiating the rites of the Eleusinian Mysteries. This updated edition incorporates twenty-eight new lines in the first Hymn to Dionysos, along with expanded notes, a new preface, and an enhanced bibliography. With her introduction and notes, Rayor places the hymns in their historical and aesthetic context, providing the information needed to read, interpret, and fully appreciate these literary windows on an ancient world. As introductions to the Greek gods, entrancing stories, exquisite poetry, and early literary records of key religious rituals and sites, the Homeric Hymns should be read by any student of mythology, classical literature, ancient religion, women in antiquity, or the Greek language.
Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer
Author: Martin Litchfield WestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
In addition to the Homeric Hymns, this volume contains fragments of five comic poems that were connected with Homer's name in or just after the Classical period, along with several ancient accounts of the poet's life.
Speech in Ancient Greek Literature
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004498818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
The fifth volume of the Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative deals with speech: it discusses the types, modes and functions of speech in narrative, the boundaries between speech and narrative context, and the absence of speech (silence).
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Author: HesiodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
The Reception of the Homeric Hymns
Author: Andrew FaulknerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198728786
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Reception of the Homeric Hymns is a collection of original essays exploring the reception of the Homeric Hymns and other early hexameter poems in the literature and scholarship of the first century BC and beyond. Although much work has been done on the Hymns over the past few decades, and despite their importance within the Western literary tradition, their influence on authors after the fourth century BC has so far received relatively little attention and there remains much to explore, particularly in the area of their reception in later Greco-Roman literature and art. This volume aims to address this gap in scholarship by discussing a variety of Latin and Greek texts and authors across the late Hellenistic, Imperial, and Late Antique periods, including studies of major Latin authors, such as Virgil, Horace, and Ovid, and Byzantine authors writing in classicizing verse. While much of the book deals with classical reception of the Hymns, including looking beyond the textual realm to their influence on art, the editors and contributors have extended its scope to include discussion of Italian literature of the fifteenth century, German scholarship of the nineteenth century, and the English Romantic poets, demonstrating the enduring legacy of the Homeric Hymns in the literary world.
The Homeric Hymns
Author: Erwin CookPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421411334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
A rich source for students of Greek mythology and literature, the Homeric hymns are also fine poetry. Attributed by the ancients to Homer, these prooimia, or preludes, were actually composed over centuries and used by poets to prepare for the singing or recitation of longer portions of the Homeric epics. In his acclaimed translations of the hymns, Apostolos Athanassakis preserves the essential simplicity of the original Greek, offering a straightforward, line-by-line translation that makes no attempts to masquerade or modernize. For this long-awaited new edition, Athanassakis enhances his classic work with a comprehensive index, careful and selective changes in the translations themselves, and numerous additions to the notes which will enrich the reader's experience of these ancient and influential poems.
The Homeric Hymns
Author: Susan Chadwick ShelmerdinePublisher: Focus
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
English translation of all the Homeric Hymns, with notes and introductions.