Research Catalog

Title

Homeric hymns ; Homeric apocrypha ; Lives of Homer / edited and translated by Martin L. West.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• , 8 α ..
• West, M. L. (Martin Litchfield), 1937-2015.

Description

xii, 467 pages; 17 cm

Summary

"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.

Series Statement

The Loeb classical library ; 496

Uniform Title

Loeb classical library ; 496.

Alternative Title

• Homeric apocrypha
• Lives of Homer

Subjects

• Poets, Greek
• Homeric hymns
• Greek poetry
• Hymns, Greek (Classical)
• Homer > Authorship > Early works to 1800
• Homeric hymns > Translations into English
• Biography
• Authorship
• Poètes grecs > Biographies
• Poesia épica > Grécia antiga
• Greek poetry > Translations into English
• Early works
• Poésie épique grecque > Anthologies > Traductions anglaises
• Homère > Paternité littéraire
• Hymnes homériques > Traductions anglaises
• Hymns, Greek (Classical) > Translations into English
• Poets, Greek > Biography > Early works to 1800
• Homer > Early works to 1800
• Translations
• Hymnes grecs anciens > Traductions anglaises

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• Early works.
• Translations.

Note

• Many of these hymns, poems in the apocrypha, and biographical accounts of Homer translated into English for the first time.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 23-25) and indexes.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Ancient Greek.

Contents

Homeric hymns. To Dionysus (fragments) ; 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 the Lionheart ; 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 Earth Mother of All ; To Helios ; To Selene ; To the Dioscuri ; Hymn fragment -- Homeric apocrypha. Margites ; Cercopes ; Epikichlides ; The battle of the weasel and the mice ; The battle of frogs and mice -- Lives of Homer. The contest of Homer and Hesiod ; (Pseudo- )Herodotus, On Homer's origins, date, and life ; (Pseudo- )Plutarch, On Homer (I) ; (Pseudo- )Plutarch, On Homer (II) ; From Proclus, Chrestomathy I ; From Hesychius of Miletus, Index of famous authors ; Anonymous I, Life of Homer (Vita Romana) ; Anonymus II, The lineage of Homer (Vita Scorialensis I) ; Anonymus III (Vita Scorialensis II) ; Appendix Romana.

Call Number

PA3611

ISBN

• 0674996062
• 9780674996069

LCCN

2002031814

OCLC

50511096

Title

Homeric hymns ; Homeric apocrypha ; Lives of Homer / edited and translated by Martin L. West.

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Loeb classical library ; 496

Loeb classical library ; 496.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 23-25) and indexes.

Language

Translated from the Ancient Greek.

Alternate Script for Subject

́ αα α α.

Alternate Script for Subject

, 8 α . αα.

Added Author

West, M. L. (Martin Litchfield), 1937-2015.

Alternate Script for Added Author

, 8 α .. Dubious author

Other Form:

Online version: Homeric hymns, Homeric apocrypha, lives of Homer. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003 (OCoLC)603655020

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PA3611 .H662