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Category : Tablet computers
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
"Covers iOS5.1 on iPad, iPad 2, and iPad 3rd generation." -- Cover.
Homer's Hymn to Ceres
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ISBN:
Category : Tablet computers
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
"Covers iOS5.1 on iPad, iPad 2, and iPad 3rd generation." -- Cover.
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Author: Helene P. FoleyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691014791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed in the late seventh or early sixth century B.C.E., is a key to understanding the psychological and religious world of ancient Greek women. The poem tells how Hades, lord of the underworld, abducted the goddess Persephone and how her grieving mother, Demeter, the goddess of grain, forced the gods to allow Persephone to return to her for part of each year. Helene Foley presents the Greek text and an annotated translation of this poem, together with selected essays that give the reader a rich understanding of the Hymn's structure and artistry, its role in the religious life of the ancient world, and its meaning for the modern world.
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Author: Helene P. FoleyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691014795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed in the late seventh or early sixth century B.C.E., is a key to understanding the psychological and religious world of ancient Greek women. The poem tells how Hades, lord of the underworld, abducted the goddess Persephone and how her grieving mother, Demeter, the goddess of grain, forced the gods to allow Persephone to return to her for part of each year. Helene Foley presents the Greek text and an annotated translation of this poem, together with selected essays that give the reader a rich understanding of the Hymn's structure and artistry, its role in the religious life of the ancient world, and its meaning for the modern world.
Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
Author: HesiodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Homeric Hymns
Author: Diane J. RayorPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520957822
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
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.
Three Homeric Hymns
Author: HomerusPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521451582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
This book is specifically designed for upper-level students of these major narrative works of early Greek poetry.
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Author: Nicholas James RichardsonPublisher: Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
The Homeric Hymns
Author: Andrew FaulknerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199589038
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
This is the first collection of scholarly essays on the Homeric Hymns, a corpus of 33 hexameter poems celebrating gods that were probably recited at religious festivals, among other possible performance venues, and were frequently attributed in antiquity to Homer. After a general introduction to modern scholarship on the Homeric Hymns, the essays of the first part of the book examine in detail aspects of the longer narrative poems in the collection, while those of the second part give critical attention to the shorter poems and to the collection as a whole. The contributors to the volume present a wide range of stimulating views on the study of the Homeric Hymns, which have attracted much interest in recent years.
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Author: Nicholas James RichardsonPublisher: Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Homeric Hymn to Demeter
The Homeric hymns
Author: Thomas William AllenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gods, Greek
Languages : id
Pages : 420
Book Description