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Author : Homerus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521451581
This book is specifically designed for upper-level students of these major narrative works of early Greek poetry.
Author : Nicholas Richardson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316224250
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.
Author : Diane J. Rayor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780520957824
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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004498815
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).
Author : Thomas William Allen,Edward Ernest Sikes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Gods, Greek
ISBN : OXFORD:590499432
Author : Andrew Faulkner,Athanassios Vergados,Andreas Schwab
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198728788
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 : Homer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141911175
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 : Martin Litchfield West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015052645424
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.
Author : Susan Chadwick Shelmerdine
Publisher : Focus
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X030199868
English translation of all the Homeric Hymns, with notes and introductions.
Author : A.M. Miller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004328280
This detailed literary and rhetorical analysis of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo treats the poem as a unified work of art in which sophisticated poetic craftsmanship is put to the service of serious ethical thought. By means of parallels from Homer, Hesiod, and other Homeric hymns, as well as from later epideictic poetry and prose, the author seeks to show that the poet of the Hymn follows a coherent ''program'' whose intention is to praise Apollo from his birth on humble Delos to his establishment in a position of glory at Delphi. At the same time, the ''Delian'' and ''Pythian'' portions of the hymn are linked by a complex network of ideas bearing on the ethos of Apollo and the nature of his Delphic oracle. The study takes into account previous scholarship on the Hymn and provides appendices on ''The Question of Unity'' and ''The Cosmological Hierarchy and Apollo's Timai''.
Author : Homer
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:4066338115348
The Homeric Hymns is a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. The hymns employ the same epic meter—dactylic hexameter—as the Iliad and Odyssey, use many similar formulas and are couched in the same dialect. Contents: To Dionysus To Demeter To Apollo To Hermes To Aphrodite To Aphrodite To Dionysus To Ares To Artemis To Aphrodite To Athena To Hera To Demeter To the Mother of the Gods To Heracles With the Heart of a Lion To Asclepius To the Dioscuri To Hermes To Pan To Hephaestus To Apollo To Poseidon To Zeus To Hestia To the Muses and Apollo To Dionysus To Artemis To Athena To Hestia To Gaia, Mother of All To Helios To Selene To the Dioscuri
Author : Andrew Faulkner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199589036
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 : Homer
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547784852
The Homeric Hymns is a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. The hymns employ the same epic meter—dactylic hexameter—as the Iliad and Odyssey, use many similar formulas and are couched in the same dialect. Contents: To Dionysus To Demeter To Apollo To Hermes To Aphrodite To Aphrodite To Dionysus To Ares To Artemis To Aphrodite To Athena To Hera To Demeter To the Mother of the Gods To Heracles With the Heart of a Lion To Asclepius To the Dioscuri To Hermes To Pan To Hephaestus To Apollo To Poseidon To Zeus To Hestia To the Muses and Apollo To Dionysus To Artemis To Athena To Hestia To Gaia, Mother of All To Helios To Selene To the Dioscuri
Author : Hesiod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015005559995
Author : Cora Angier Sowa
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Epic poetry, Greek
ISBN : 9780865160378
A thorough analysis of the mechanics of the language of Homer as used in the Iliad and the Odyssey.