The Homeric hymns / a translation with introduction and notes, Diane J. Rayor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rayor, Diane J., Author.

Contributor:

Rayor, Diane J., translator.

Series:

Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.

Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature

Standardized Title:

Homeric hymns. English

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Homeric hymns--Translations into English.

Homeric hymns.

Hymns, Greek (Classical)--Translations into English.

Hymns, Greek (Classical).

Gods, Greek--Poetry.

Gods, Greek.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 p.)

Edition:

Updated edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

1. HYMN TO DIONYSOS

2. HYMN TO DEMETER

3. HYMN TO APOLLO

4. HYMN TO HERMES

5. HYMN TO APHRODITE

6. HYMN TO APHRODITE

7. HYMN TO DIONYSOS

8. HYMN TO ARES

9. HYMN TO ARTEMIS

10. HYMN TO APHRODITE

11. HYMN TO ATHENA

12. HYMN TO HERA

13. HYMN TO DEMETER

14. HYMN TO MOTHER OF THE GODS

15. HYMN TO LION-HEARTED HERAKLES

16. HYMN TO ASKLEPIOS

17. HYMN TO THE DIOSKOUROI

18. HYMN TO HERMES

19. HYMN TO PAN

20. HYMN TO HEPHAISTOS

21. HYMN TO APOLLO

22. HYMN TO POSEIDON

23. HYMN TO ZEUS

24. HYMN TO HESTIA

25. HYMN TO THE MUSES, APOLLO, AND ZEUS

26. HYMN TO DIONYSOS

27. HYMN TO ARTEMIS

28. HYMN TO ATHENA

29. HYMN TO HESTIA AND HERMES

30. HYMN TO GAIA

31. HYMN TO HELIOS

32. HYMN TO SELENE

33. HYMN TO THE DIOSKOUROI

34. HYMN TO XENOI

NOTES

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

GLOSSARY

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 17, 2014).

ISBN:

9780520957824

0520957822

OCLC:

886380756