(H/B) HOMERIC HYMNS. HOMERIC APOCRYPHA. LIVES OF HOMER

Παρουσίαση

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 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.
Martin West's faithful and pleasing translations are fully annotated; his freshly edited texts offer new solutions to a number of textual puzzles. (From the publisher)

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Preface
Abbreviations and Symbols
Homeric Hymns
Introduction
Sigla and Bibliography
Hymns
1. To Dionysus (fragments)
2. To Demeter
3. To Apollo
4. To Hermes
5. To Aphrodite
6. To Aphrodite
7. To Dionysus
8. To Ares
9. To Artemis
10. To Aphrodite
11. To Athena
12. To Hera
13. To Demeter
14. To the Mother of the Gods
15. To Heracles the Lionheart
16. To Asclepius
17. To the Dioscuri
18. To Hermes
19. To Pan
20. To Hephaestus
21. To Apollo
22. To Poseidon
23. To Zeus
24. To Hestia
25. To the Muses and Apollo
26. To Dionysus
27. To Artemis
28. To Athena
29. To Hestia
30. To Earth Mother of All
31. To Helios
32. To Selene
33. To the Dioscuri
32. Hymn fragment
Homeric Apocrypha
Introduction
Sigla and Bibliography
Texts
Margites
Cercopes
Epikichlides
The Battle of the Weasel and the Mice
The Battle of Frogs and Mice
Lives of Homer
Introduction
Select Bibliography
Lives
1. The Contest of Homer and Hesiod
2. (Pseudo-)Herodotus, On Homer's Origins, Date, and Life
3. (Pseudo-)Plutarch, On Homer (I)
4. (Pseudo-)Plutarch, On Homer (II)
5. From Proclus, Chrestomathy I
6. From Hesychius of Miletus, Index of Famous Authors
7. Anonymus I, Life of Homer (Vita Romana)
8. Anonymus II, The Lineage of Homer (Vita Scorialensis I)
9. Anonymus III (Vita Scorialensis II)
10. Appendix Romana
Index to the Homeric Hymns and Apocrypha
Index to the Lives of Homer