The Homeric Hymns

Author : Anonim
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0801879833

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The Homeric Hymns by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas William Allen,Edward Ernest Sikes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Gods, Greek
ISBN : OXFORD:590499432

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The Homeric hymns by Thomas William Allen,Edward Ernest Sikes Pdf

Author : Diane J. Rayor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780520957824

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The Homeric Hymns by Diane J. Rayor Pdf

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.

Author : Hesiod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015005559995

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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod Pdf

Author : Andrew Faulkner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199589036

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The Homeric Hymns by Andrew Faulkner Pdf

This is the first collection of scholarly essays on the Homeric Hymns, a corpus of 33 hexameter poems celebrating gods that were probably recited at religious festivals, among other possible performance venues, and were frequently attributed in antiquity to Homer. After a general introduction to modern scholarship on the Homeric Hymns, the essays of the first part of the book examine in detail aspects of the longer narrative poems in the collection, while those of the second part give critical attention to the shorter poems and to the collection as a whole. The contributors to the volume present a wide range of stimulating views on the study of the Homeric Hymns, which have attracted much interest in recent years.

Author : Homerus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521451581

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Three Homeric Hymns by Homerus Pdf

This book is specifically designed for upper-level students of these major narrative works of early Greek poetry.

Author : Hesiod
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0226329674

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Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns by Hesiod Pdf

Winner of the 2005 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. In Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, highly acclaimed poet and translator Daryl Hine brings to life the words of Hesiod and the world of Archaic Greece. While most available versions of these early Greek writings are rendered in prose, Hine's illuminating translations represent these early classics as they originally appeared, in verse. Since prose was not invented as a literary medium until well after Hesiod's time, presenting these works as poems more closely approximates not only the mechanics but also the melody of the originals. This volume includes Hesiod's Works and Days and Theogony, two of the oldest non-Homeric poems to survive from antiquity. Works and Days is in part a farmer's almanac—filled with cautionary tales and advice for managing harvests and maintaining a good work ethic—and Theogony is the earliest comprehensive account of classical mythology—including the names and genealogies of the gods (and giants and monsters) of Olympus, the sea, and the underworld. Hine brings out Hesiod's unmistakable personality; Hesiod's tales of his escapades and his gritty and persuasive voice not only give us a sense of the author's own character but also offer up a rare glimpse of the everyday life of ordinary people in the eighth century BCE. In contrast, the Homeric Hymns are more distant in that they depict aristocratic life in a polished tone that reveals nothing of the narrators' personalities. These hymns (so named because they address the deities in short invocations at the beginning and end of each) are some of the earliest examples of epyllia, or short stories in the epic manner in Greek. This volume unites Hine's skillful translations of the Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns—along with Hine's rendering of the mock-Homeric epic The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice—in a stunning pairing of these masterful classics.

Author : Michael Crudden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0192802402

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The Homeric Hymns by Michael Crudden Pdf

The Homeric Hymns honor the Greek gods. Once attributed to Homer, it is now accepted that the hymns were composed by later poets working in the same tradition, probably during the seventh and sixth centuries BC. This volume offers a new faithful verse translation of all the hymns, ExplanatoryNotes, and a Glossary of Names.

Author : Erwin Cook
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421411330

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The Homeric Hymns by Erwin Cook Pdf

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.

Author : Homer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141911175

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The Homeric Hymns by Homer Pdf

Composed for recitation at festivals, these 33 songs were written in honour of the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. They recount the key episodes in the lives of the gods, and dramatise the moments when they first appear before mortals. Together they offer the most vivid picture we have of the Greek view of the relationship between the divine and human worlds.

Author : Helene P. Foley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400849086

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The Homeric Hymn to Demeter by Helene P. Foley Pdf

The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed in the late seventh or early sixth century B.C.E., is a key to understanding the psychological and religious world of ancient Greek women. The poem tells how Hades, lord of the underworld, abducted the goddess Persephone and how her grieving mother, Demeter, the goddess of grain, forced the gods to allow Persephone to return to her for part of each year. Helene Foley presents the Greek text and an annotated translation of this poem, together with selected essays that give the reader a rich understanding of the Hymn's structure and artistry, its role in the religious life of the ancient world, and its meaning for the modern world.

Author : S. Douglas Olson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110260748

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The "Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite" and Related Texts by S. Douglas Olson Pdf

The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (600s BCE?) tells the story of a brief encounter between the goddess of love and the cowherd Anchises, which led to the birth of the Trojan hero Aeneas. Less than 300 lines long, it is among the shortest of the so-called ‘major Homeric Hymns’. However, it is also richly and beautifully conceived and narrated, and of enormous importance for the Greek mythology and the history of Greek religion. Olson offers a complete new text of the poem and of ten related ‘minor Hymns’, based on a fresh examination of the manuscripts; a full critical apparatus; and a translation. The work is completed by a substantial introduction, which treats inter alia the stories of Aeneas, the problem of dating early Greek epic, and the nature of the connections between the Hymn to Aphrodite and the Homeric and Hesiodic poems. Olson furthermore offers a substantial, narratologically-oriented commentary.

Author : Andrew Faulkner,Athanassios Vergados,Andreas Schwab
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198728788

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The Reception of the Homeric Hymns by Andrew Faulkner,Athanassios Vergados,Andreas Schwab Pdf

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.

Author : Sarah Ruden
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0872207250

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Homeric Hymns by Sarah Ruden Pdf

Poet and translator Sarah Ruden offers a sparkling new translation of one of our prime sources for archaic Greek mythology, ritual, cosmology, and psychology.

Author : Martin Litchfield West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015052645424

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Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer by Martin Litchfield West Pdf

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.