Title: Homeric Hymns. Homeric Apocrypha. Lives of Homer
Abstract: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 t...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 ancient accounts of the poet's life. hymns range widely in length: two are over 500 lines long; several run only a half-dozen lines. Among the longest are the hymn To Demeter, which tells the foundational story of the Eleusinian Mysters, and To Hermes, distinctive in being amusing. comic poems gathered as Homeric apocrypha include Margites, the Battle of Frogs and Mice and a fragment of a perhaps earlier poem of the same type called Battle of the Weasel and the Mice. edition of Lives of Homer contains The Contest of Homer and Hesiod and nine other biographical accounts.Read More
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-04-30
Language: en
Type: book
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