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Author : Cora Angier Sowa
Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,5 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.
Author : Susan Chadwick Shelmerdine
Publisher : Focus
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Gods, Greek
ISBN : IND:30000055650513
English translation of all the Homeric Hymns, with notes and introductions.
Author : Homerus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : 54,6 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 : Hesiod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015005559995
Author : Homer
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547727323
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 : Homer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Michael Crudden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0192802402
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 : S. Douglas Olson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110260748
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 : Thomas William Allen,Edward Ernest Sikes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Gods, Greek
ISBN : OXFORD:590499432
Author : Erwin Cook
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421411330
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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191623240
'With fair-tressed Demeter, the sacred goddess, my song begins, With herself and her slim-ankled daughter, whom Aidoneus once Abducted...' Most people are familiar, at least by repute, with the two great epics of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey, but few are aware that other poems survive that were attributed to Homer in ancient times. The Homeric Hymns are now known to be the work of various poets working in the same tradition, probably during the seventh and sixth centuries BC. They honour the Greek gods, and recount some of the most attractive of the Greek myths. Four of them (Hymns 2-5) stand out by reason of their length and quality. The Hymn to Demeter tells what happened when Hades, lord of the dead, abducted Persephone, Demeter's daughter. The Hymn to Apollo describes Apollo's birth and the foundation of his Delphic oracle. In the Hymn to Hermes Apollo's cattle are stolen by a felonious infant - Hermes, god of thieves. In the Hymn to Aphrodite the goddess of love herself becomes infatuated with a mortal man, the Trojan prince Ankhises. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : A.M. Miller
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Andrew Faulkner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,7 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.
