The homeric hymns

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The Homeric Hymns have survived for two and a half millennia because of their captivating stories, beautiful language, and religious significance. This book incorporates twenty-eight new lines in the first Hymn to Dionysos, along with expanded notes, a new preface, and an enhanced bibliography.

“Rayor’s book is superb and appeals to all who are interested in classical literature, mythology, and related subjects. It displays the translator’s art at its best and is highly suitable for classroom use. Those wishing to pursue the Hymns in greater depth will find the select bibliography a useful source of current scholarship on the subject. Rayor is to be congratulated for a job well done.”— Classical Outlook

"This translation beautifully captures the style of the Homeric Hymns, at once pictorial and flowing. With an art that conceals art, Rayor finds the right euphonious language: accurate, vibrant without calling attention to itself, varied in tone, and natural. It is a delight to read."—Eva Stehle, author of Performance and Gender in Ancient Greece

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. Thirty-four poems that invoke and celebrate the gods of ancient Greece, the Homeric Hymns raise questions that humanity still struggles with--questions about our place among others and in the world. "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 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 28 new lines in the First Hymn to Dionysus, along with expanded notes, a new preface, and expanded bibliography. With her introduction and notes, Rayor places the hymns in their historical and aesthetic context, providing all 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.

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The Homeric Hymns

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The best selling essential and straightforward translation of the homeric hymns accompanied by an expanded introduction and updated expert notes a rich source for students of greek mythology and literature the homeric hymns are also fine poetry attributed by the ancients to homer these prooim Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

The Orphic Hymns

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The best selling english translation of the mysterious and cosmic greek poetry known as the orphic hymns at the very beginnings of the archaic age the great singer orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death he felt that achievi Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Homeric Hymns

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with fair tressed demeter the sacred goddess my song begins with herself and her slim ankled daughter whom aidoneus once abducted most people are familiar at least by repute with the two great epics of homer the iliad and the odyssey but few are aware that other poems survive that were Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 14 maart 2014

Aantal pagina's: 192

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Diane J. Rayor

Tweede Auteur: Diane J. Rayor

Hoofduitgeverij: University Of California Press

Eerste Vertaler: Diane J. Rayor

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 139 mm

Product hoogte: 11 mm

Product lengte: 213 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 140 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 11 mm

Verpakking lengte: 210 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 227 g

EAN: 9780520282117

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