Homeric Hymns

by Ruden, Sarah; Murnaghan, Sheila

• ISBN13: 9780872207257
• ISBN10: 0872207250
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

Summary

Poet and translator Sarah Ruden offers a sparkling new translation of one of our prime sources for archaic Greek mythology, ritual, cosmology, and psychology. 'Some say that you were born, O Stitched-In god, / At windy Icarus or Draconum / Or Naxos or the deep-whirled Alpheus river / To Semele and Zeus who loves the thunder. / Others, my lord, claim Thebes was your beginning -- / Liars. Far off from men, creation's father / Engendered you unknown to white-armed Hera... Hardback edition also available: 0872207269, £24.95.

Author Biography

Poet and classicist Sarah Ruden received her Ph.D. in Classics from Harvard University.Sheila Murnaghan is Professor of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Note on the Text	xxiv
1. To Dionysus [Fragments]	1	(2)
2. To Demeter	3	(16)
3. To Apollo	19	(19)
4. To Hermes	38	(19)
5. To Aphrodite	57	(10)
6. To Aphrodite	67	(1)
7. To Dionysus	68	(2)
8. To Ares	70	(1)
9. To Artemis	71	(1)
10. To Aphrodite	72	(1)
11. To Athena	73	(1)
12. To Hera	74	(1)
13. To Demeter	75	(1)
14. To the Mother of the Gods	76	(1)
15. To Lion-hearted Heracles	77	(1)
16. To Asclepius	78	(1)
17. To the Dioscuri	79	(1)
18. To Hermes	80	(1)
19. To Pan	81	(2)
20. To Hephaestus	83	(1)
21. To Apollo	84	(1)
22. To Poseidon	85	(1)
23. To Zeus	86	(1)
24. To Hestia	87	(1)
25. To the Muses and Apollo	88	(1)
26. To Dionysus	89	(1)
27. To Artemis	90	(1)
28. To Athena	91	(1)
29. To Hestia	92	(1)
30. To Earth, Mother of All Things	93	(1)
31. To Helios	94	(1)
32. To Selene	95	(1)
33. To the Dioscuri	96	(1)
34. To Guest-friends	97	(1)
Glossary of Names	98	(5)
Selected Bibliography	103