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Chapman's Homeric hymns and other Homerica / George Chapman; edited by Allardyce Nicoll; introduction by Stephen Scully.
Author
Chapman, George, 1559?-1634
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Uniform title
Homeric hymns.
English
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Uniform title
Homeric hymns.
English.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford, England : Princeton University Press, [2008]
2008
Description
1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations.
Details
Subject(s)
Gods, Greek
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Poetry
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Hymns, Greek (Classical)
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Translations into English
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Editor
Nicoll, Allardyce, 1894-1976
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Writer of introduction
Scully, Stephen, 1947-
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Series
Bollingen series ; 41.
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Bollingen series ; 41
Summary note
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."
Notes
Sommaire disponible à l'adresse.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Source of description
Description based on print version record.
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
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ISBN
0-691-22753-5
OCLC
1241256132
1312727247
Doi
10.1515/9780691227535
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Chapman's Homeric hymns and other Homerica / edited by Allardyce Nicoll ; with a new introduction by Stephen Scully.
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