The Homeric Hymns: A New Prose Translation, and Essays, Literary and Mythological

by Homer

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Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess - as Hesiod's "Theogony" and "Works and Days" do. A collection of 33 such poems has come down to us from antiquity under the title "Hymns of Homer". This 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" or the "Odyssey"). Here too is a collection of ancient accounts of the poet's life. The hymns range...Read more
  • ISBN10 1290066485
  • ISBN13 9781290066488
  • Publish Date 10 January 2012 (first published 24 April 2003)
  • Publish Status Withdrawn
  • Publish Country IE
  • Publisher HardPress Ltd
  • Imprint HardPress Publishing
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 292
  • Language English