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Book Homer s Hymn to Ceres

Download or read book Homer s Hymn to Ceres written by and published by . This book was released on 1781 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Covers iOS5.1 on iPad, iPad 2, and iPad 3rd generation." -- Cover.

Book The Homeric Hymn to Demeter

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 1994 with total page 319 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.

Book The Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Download or read book The Homeric Hymn to Demeter written by Nicholas James Richardson and published by Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Book The Homeric Hymns

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.

Book Hesiod  the Homeric Hymns  and Homerica

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 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Homeric Hymns

    Book Details:
  • Author : Homer
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2003-04-24
  • ISBN : 0141911174
  • Pages : 224 pages

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.

Book The Homeric Hymns

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  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Release : 2004-08-02
  • ISBN : 9780801879838
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book The Homeric Hymns written by and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich source for students of Greek mythology and literature, the Homeric hymns are also fine poetry. Attributed by the ancients to Homer, these prooimia, or preludes, were actually composed over centuries and used by poets to prepare for the singing or recitation of longer portions of the Homeric epics. In his acclaimed translations of the hymns, Apostolos Athanassakis preserves the essential simplicity of the original Greek, offering a straightforward, line-by-line translation that makes no attempts to masquerade or modernize. For this long-awaited new edition, Athanassakis enhances his classic work with a comprehensive index, careful and selective changes in the translations themselves, and numerous additions to the notes which will enrich the reader's experience of these ancient and influential poems.

Book The Homeric Hymns

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diane J. Rayor
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2014-03-14
  • ISBN : 0520282116
  • Pages : 192 pages

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.

Book The Homeric Hymns

Download or read book The Homeric Hymns written by Andrew Faulkner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of scholarly essays on the Homeric Hymns, a corpus of 33 hexameter poems celebrating gods that were probably recited at religious festivals, among other possible performance venues, and were frequently attributed in antiquity to Homer. After a general introduction to modern scholarship on the Homeric Hymns, the essays of the first part of the book examine in detail aspects of the longer narrative poems in the collection, while those of the second part give critical attention to the shorter poems and to the collection as a whole. The contributors to the volume present a wide range of stimulating views on the study of the Homeric Hymns, which have attracted much interest in recent years.

Book The Homeric Hymns

    Book Details:
  • Author : Diane J. Rayor
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2004-02-12
  • ISBN : 9780520239937
  • Pages : 190 pages

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 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book Three Homeric Hymns

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  • Author : Homerus
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2010-04-22
  • ISBN : 0521451582
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Three Homeric Hymns written by Homerus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is specifically designed for upper-level students of these major narrative works of early Greek poetry.

Book The Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Download or read book The Homeric Hymn to Demeter written by Homerus and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greek Myths and Mesopotamia

Download or read book Greek Myths and Mesopotamia written by Charles Penglase and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the Mesopotamian influence on Greek mythology in literary works of the epic period, concentrating in particular on journey myths. A major contribution to the understanding of the colourful myths involved.

Book The Homeric hymns

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:

Book Homeric Hymns  Homeric Apocrypha  Lives of Homer

Download or read book Homeric Hymns Homeric Apocrypha Lives of Homer written by Martin Litchfield West and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to the Homeric Hymns, this volume contains fragments of five comic poems that were connected with Homer's name in or just after the Classical period, along with several ancient accounts of the poet's life.

Book Homeric Hymns

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  • Author : Sarah Ruden
  • Publisher : Hackett Publishing
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780872207257
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Homeric Hymns written by Sarah Ruden and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet and translator Sarah Ruden offers a sparkling new translation of one of our prime sources for archaic Greek mythology, ritual, cosmology, and psychology.

Book Traditional Themes and the Homeric Hymns

Download or read book Traditional Themes and the Homeric Hymns written by Cora Angier Sowa and published by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough analysis of the mechanics of the language of Homer as used in the Iliad and the Odyssey.