The Homeric Hymns A Verse Translation

Author : Thelma Sargent
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393351947
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Homeric Hymns: A Verse Translation written by Thelma Sargent and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1975-11-17 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spuriously attributed to Homer, the hymns and invocations collected in this book constitute, alongside The Iliad and The Odyssey the great sources of ancient Greek poetry. Now Thelma Sargent has rendered these works into a lucid and beautiful English verse. Accompanying the translated texts is a discussion of Greek meter and a explanation written by Sargent of her translation.

Author : Hesiod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica written by Hesiod and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Diane J. Rayor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520957822
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Homeric Hymns written by Diane J. Rayor and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Thomas William Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Homeric hymns written by Thomas William Allen and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Diane J. Rayor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520282116
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Homeric Hymns written by Diane J. Rayor and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 apreciate these literary windows on an ancient world."--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Diane J. Rayor
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520239938
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Homeric Hymns written by Diane J. Rayor and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Helene P. Foley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140084908X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Homeric Hymn to Demeter written by Helene P. Foley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Charles Boer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781559213820
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Homeric Hymns: Revised 2nd Edition written by Charles Boer and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homeric Hymns with illustrations. Translated by Charles Boer.

Author : Hesiod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns written by Hesiod and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In contrast, the Homeric Hymns 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 translations of the Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns - along with his rendering of the mock-Homeric epic The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice - in a pairing of these important classics"--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Homer
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141911174
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Homeric Hymns written by Homer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.