Homeric hymns, Homeric apocrypha, lives of Homer /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited and translated by Martin L. West.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge, Mass. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Harvard University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2003.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 467 pages ;
Dimensions
17 cm
SERIES
Series Title
The Loeb classical library ;
Volume Designation
496
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Many of these hymns, poems in the apocrypha, and biographical accounts of Homer translated into English for the first time.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess - as Hesiod's Theogony and Words and Days do. A collection of thirty-three such poems has come down to us from antiquity under the title "Hymns of Homer." This new Loeb Classical Library volume contains, in addition to the Hymns, fragments of five comic poems that were connected with Homer's name in or just after the Classical period (but are not today believed to be by the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey). Here too is a collection of ancient accounts of the poet's life." "The Hymns range widely in length: two are over 500 lines long; several run only a half dozen lines. Among the longest are the hymn To Demeter, which tells the foundational story of the Eleusinian Mysteries; and To Hermes, distinctive in being amusing. The comic poems gathered as Homeric Apocrypha include Margites, the Battle of Frogs and Mice, and, for the first time in English, a fragment of a perhaps earlier poem of the same type called Battle of the Weasel and the Mice. The edition of Lives of Homer contains The Contest of Homer and Hesiod and nine other biographical accounts, translated into English for the first time."--Jacket.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Homeric hymns, Homeric apocrypha, lives of Homer.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Homer
Homer-- Authorship
Homer
Homère-- Paternité littéraire.
Homère.
Homer.
Homer.
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Homeric hymns
Hymnes homériques-- Traductions anglaises.
Homeric hymns.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Greek poetry, Translations into English.
Hymns, Greek (Classical), Translations into English.