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The Homeric Hymns, by Peter McDonald

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The Homeric Hymns are a crucial work in the Western literary canon, and Peter McDonald’s new verse translations offer the major modern account of this still under-appreciated body of ancient poetry. The thirty-three ‘hymns’ are poetic accounts of ancient Greek gods, including Apollo, Dionysus, Aphrodite, Zeus, and Poseidon. Some of the poems are micro-epics in their own right, recounting the lives and affairs of the divine; taken together, they form a meditation on the primal themes of love, war, betrayal, desire, and paternity, and contemplate the dangerous proximity of gods and men. The book includes a new translation of the ‘Life of Homer’, a narrative incorporating the shorter poems known as Homer’s Epigrams, attributed to Pseudo-Herodotus. Two appendices provide verse translations of episodes from Homer’s Odyssey and Hesiod’s Theogony, while McDonald gives fresh versions throughout of relevant passages from Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and other Greek poets. The accompanying notes and commentaries on the poems are the most generous and authoritative of any translation. This book revives an ancient classic for the twenty-first century

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The Homeric Hymns

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by Peter McDonald

Machine generated contents note: -- Homeric Hymns -- Hymn 1 -- To Dionysus -- Hymn 2 -- To Demeter -- Hymn 3 -- To Apollo -- Hymn 4 -- To Hermes -- Hymn 5 -- To Aphrodite -- Hymn 6 -- To Aphrodite -- Hymn 7 -- To Dionysus -- Hymn 8 -- To Ares -- Hymn 9 -- To Atremis -- Hymn 10 -- To Aphrodite -- Hymn 11 -- To Athene -- Hymn 12 -- To Hera -- Hymn 13 -- To Demeter -- Hymn 14 -- To the Mother of the Gods -- Hymn 15 -- To Heracles the Lion-hearted -- Hymn 16 -- To Asclepius -- Hymn 17 -- To the Dioscuri -- Hymn 18 -- To Hermes -- Hymn 19 -- To Pan -- Hymn 20 -- To Hephaestus -- Hymn 21 -- To Apollo -- Hymn 22 -- To Poseidon -- Hymn 23 -- To Zeus -- Hymn 24 -- To Hestia -- Hymn 25 -- To the Muses and Apollo -- Hymn 26 -- To Dionysus -- Hymn 27 -- To Artemis -- Hymn 28 -- To Athene -- Hymn 29 -- To Hestia -- Hymn 30 -- To the Earth, Mother of All -- Hymn 31 -- To Helios -- Hymn 32 -- To Selene -- Hymn 33 -- To the Dioscuri -- (Pseudo- ) Herodotus, On Homer (containing Homer's Epigrams) -- Epigram 1 -- Epigram 2 -- Epigram 3 -- Epigram 4 -- Epigram 5 -- Epigram 6 -- Epigram 7 -- Epigram 8 -- Epigram 9 -- Epigram 10 -- Epigram 11 -- Epigram 12 -- Epigram 13 -- Epigram 14 -- Epigram 15 -- Epigram 16 -- Appendices -- 1. -- Demodocus' Song -- Odyssey 8 -- 266 -- 366 -- 2. -- Battle of Typhoeus and Zeus -- Hesiod, Theogony 820 -- 868 -- Notes -- Hymn 1To Dionysus -- Hymn 2 -- To Demeter -- Hymn 3 -- To Apollo -- Hymn 4 -- To Hermes -- Hymn 5 -- To Aphrodite -- Hymn 6 -- To Aphrodite -- Hymn 7 -- To Dionysus -- Hymn 8 -- To Ares -- Hymn 9 -- To Atremis -- Hymn 10 -- To Aphrodite -- Hymn 11 -- To Athene -- Hymn 12 -- To Hera -- Hymn 13 -- To Demeter -- Hymn 14 -- To the Mother of the Gods -- Hymn 15 -- To Heracles the Lion-hearted -- Hymn 16 -- To Asclepius -- Hymn 17 -- To the Dioscuri -- Hymn 18 -- To Hermes -- Hymn 19 -- To Paw -- Hymn 20 -- To Hephaestus -- Hymn 21 -- To Apollo -- Hymn 22 -- To Poseidon -- Hymn 23 -- To Zeus -- Hymn 24 -- To Hestia -- Hymn 25 -- To the Muses and Apollo -- Hymn 26 -- To Dionysus -- Hymn 27 -- To Artemis -- Hymn 28 -- To Athene -- Hymn 29 -- To Hestia -- Hymn 30 -- To the Earth, Mother of All -- Hymn 31 -- To Helios -- Hymn 32 -- To Selene -- Hymn 33 -- To the Dioscuri