Chapman's Homeric hymns and other Homerica / George Chapman; edited by Allardyce Nicoll; introduction by Stephen Scully.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapman, George, 1559?-1634, author.

Contributor:

Nicoll, Allardyce, 1894-1976, editor.

Scully, Stephen, 1947- writer of introduction.

Series:

Bollingen series ; 41.

Bollingen series ; 41

Standardized Title:

Homeric hymns. English.

Homeric hymns. English

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Gods, Greek--Poetry.

Gods, Greek.

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

Hymns, Greek (Classical).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford, England : Princeton University Press, [2008]

Summary:

George Chapman's translations of Homer--immortalized by Keats's sonnet-- are the most famous in the English language. Swinburne praised their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." And the great critic George Saintsbury wrote, "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what the Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language." This volume presents the original text of Chapman's translation of the Homeric hymns. The hymns, believed to have been written not by Homer himself but by followers who emulated his style, are poems written to the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. The collection, originally titled by Chapman "The Crowne of all Homers Workes," also includes epigrams and poems attributed to Homer and known as "The Lesser Homerica," as well as his famous "The Battle of Frogs and Mice."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

The Homeric Hymns and George Chapman’s Translation

Editor’s Introduction

To the Earle of Somerset

The Occasion of this Impos’d Crowne

Al The Hymnes Of Homer

An Hymne to Apollo

A Hymne to Hermes

A Hymne to Venus

To the Same

Bacchus, or The Pyrats

To Mars

To Diana

To Venus

To Pallas

To Juno

To Ceres

To the Mother of the Gods

To Lyon-Hearted Hercules

To Æsculapius

To Castor and Pollux

To Mercurie

To Pan

To Vulcan

To Phoebus

To Neptune

To Jove

To Vesta

To the Muses and Apollo

To Bacchus

To Vesta and Mercurie

To Earth the Mother of All

To the Sun

To the Moone

To Men of Hospitalitie

Batrachomyomachia

Certaine Epigramms And Other Poems Of Homer

To Cuma

In His Returne, to Cuma

Upon the Sepulcher of Midus

Cuma, Refusing His Off er t’Eternise Their State

An Assaie of His Begunne Iliads

To Thestor’s Sonne

To the Cittie Erythræa

To Mariners

The Pine The Pine

To Glaucus

Against the Samian Ministresse or Nunne

Written on the Counsaile Chamber

The Fornace, Call’d in to Sing by Potters

Eiresione, or The Olive Branch

To Certaine Fisher-Boyes Pleasing Him with Ingenious Riddles

Textual Notes

Commentary

Glossary

Notes:

Sommaire disponible à l'adresse.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780691227535

0691227535

OCLC:

1241256132