The Homeric Hymns

by Michael Crudden

Overview

The Homeric Hymns honor the Greek gods. Once attributed to Homer, it is now accepted that the hymns were composed by later poets working in the same tradition, probably during the seventh and sixth centuries BC. This volume offers a new faithful verse translation of all the hymns, Explanatory Notes, and a Glossary of Names.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199240258
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/06/2001
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	8.96(w) x 5.36(h) x 0.62(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction	xi
1.	Background	xi
2.	Structure	xi
3.	The Long Hymns	xv
4.	The Hymns and Humans	xix
	Note on the Translation	xxi
	Select Bibliography	xxv
Hymn 1	To Dionysos	3
Hymn 2	To Demeter	4
Hymn 3	To Apollo	23
Hymn 4	To Hermes	43
Hymn 5	To Aphrodite	65
Hymn 6	To Aphrodite	76
Hymn 7	To Dionysos	77
Hymn 8	To Ares	79
Hymn 9	To Artemis	79
Hymn 10	To Aphrodite	80
Hymn 11	To Athena	80
Hymn 12	To Hera	80
Hymn 13	To Demeter	81
Hymn 14	To the Mother of the Gods	81
Hymn 15	To Herakles the Lionheart	81
Hymn 16	To Asklepios	81
Hymn 17	To the Sons of Zeus	82
Hymn 18	To Hermes	82
Hymn 19	To Pan	82
Hymn 20	To Hephaistos	84
Hymn 21	To Apollo	85
Hymn 22	To Poseidon	85
Hymn 23	To Zeus	85
Hymn 24	To Hestia	85
Hymn 25	To the Muses, Apollo, and Zeus	86
Hymn 26	To Dionysos	86
Hymn 27	To Artemis	87
Hymn 28	To Athena	87
Hymn 29	To Hestia	88
Hymn 30	To Earth the Mother of All	89
Hymn 31	To the Sun	89
Hymn 32	To Selene	90
Hymn 33	To the Sons of Zeus	91
	To Hosts	92
	Explanatory Notes	93
	Glossary of Names	147