Chapman's Homeric Hymns and Other Homerica

by Homer

• ISBN13: 9780691136752
• ISBN10: 0691136750
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-14
• Publisher: Bollingen Foundation

Summary

George Chapman's translations of Homer--immortalized by Keats's sonnet-- are the most famous in the English language. Swinburne praised their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." And the great critic George Saintsbury wrote, "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what the Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language."This volume presents the original text of Chapman's translation of the Homeric hymns. The hymns, believed to have been written not by Homer himself but by followers who emulated his style, are poems written to the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. The collection, originally titled by Chapman "The Crowne of all Homers Workes," also includes epigrams and poems attributed to Homer and known as "The Lesser Homerica," as well as his famous "The Battle of Frogs and Mice."

Author Biography

Stephen Scully is associate professor of classical studies at Boston University.

Table of Contents

The Homeric Hymns and George Chapman's Translation	p. 1
Editor's Introduction by Allardyce Nicoll	p. 41
The Crowne of all Homers Workes To the Earle of Somerset	p. 49
The Occasion of this Impos'd Crowne	p. 54
Al The Hymnes of Homer An Hymne to Apollo	p. 57
A Hymne to Hermes	p. 83
A Hymne to Venus	p. 114
To the Same	p. 130
Bacchus, or The Pyrats	p. 132
To Mars	p. 136
To Diana	p. 137
To Venus	p. 137
To Pallas	p. 138
To Juno	p. 138
To Ceres	p. 139
To the Mother of the Gods	p. 139
To Lyon-Hearted Hercules	p. 140
To AElig;sculapius	p. 140
To Castor and Pollux	p. 141
To Mercurie	p. 141
To Pan	p. 142
To Vulcan	p. 144
To Phoebus	p. 145
To Neptune	p. 145
To Jove	p. 146
To Vesta	p. 146
To the Muses and Apollo	p. 146
To Bacchus	p. 147
To Diana	p. 148
To Pallas	p. 149
To Vesta and Mercurie	p. 150
To Earth the Mother of All	p. 151
To the Sun	p. 152
To the Moone	p. 153
To Castor and Pollux	p. 154
To Men of Hospitalitie	p. 155
Batrachomyomachia	p. 157
Certaine Epigramms and Other Poems of Homer To Cuma	p. 177
In His Returne, to Cuma	p. 177
Upon the Sepulcher of Midus	p. 177
Cuma, Refusing His Offer t'Eternise Their State	p. 178
An Assaie of His Begunne Iliads	p. 179
To Thestor's Sonne	p. 179
To Neptune	p. 180
To the Cittie Erythraelig;a	p. 180
To Mariners	p. 180
The Pine	p. 181
To Glaucus	p. 181
Against the Samian Ministresse or Nunne	p. 182
Written on the Counsaile Chamber	p. 182
The Fornace, Call'd in to Sing by Potters	p. 182
Eiresione, or The Olive Branch	p. 184
To Certaine Fisher-Boyes Pleasing Him with Ingenious Riddles	p. 185
[Final Verses]	p. 186
Textual Notes	p. 191
Commentary	p. 205
Glossary	p. 213
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