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Homeric Hymns
Homer
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Description for Homeric Hymns
Hardcover. This collection of edited and fully annotated Homeric texts offer fresh solutions to a number of textual puzzles. Translator(s): West, M. L. Series: Loeb Classical Library. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DQ; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 115 x 26. Weight in Grams: 342.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Loeb
Number of pages
480
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Series
Loeb Classical Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674996069
SKU
V9780674996069
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About Homer
MARTIN L. WEST is Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford.
Reviews for Homeric Hymns
Martin West wears his formidable learning lightly, and scholars and students of Greek religion and mythology will use this volume as a primary resource.
Penelope Murray Times Literary Supplement (08/20/2004) A magnificent achievement...As one would expect of a scholar of West's distinction these are accurate, keenly alive to each nuance of the Greek...Scholars owe a considerable debt of gratitude to ... Read more
Penelope Murray Times Literary Supplement (08/20/2004) A magnificent achievement...As one would expect of a scholar of West's distinction these are accurate, keenly alive to each nuance of the Greek...Scholars owe a considerable debt of gratitude to ... Read more