TY - BOOK ID - 434921 TI - Homeric hymns, Homeric apocrypha, lives of Homer AU - Homerus. AU - West, M. L. PY - 2003 VL - 496 SN - 0674996062 9780674996069 PB - Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press DB - UniCat KW - Homer KW - Hymns, Greek (Classical) KW - Greek poetry KW - Poets, Greek KW - Hymnes grecs anciens KW - Poésie grecque KW - Poètes grecs KW - Translations into English KW - Biography KW - Traductions anglaises KW - Biographies KW - Homer. KW - Authorship. KW - Homeric hymns KW - Translations into English. KW - Authorship KW - -Poets, Greek KW - Greek poets KW - Greek literature KW - -Authorship KW - Inni omerici KW - Homērikoi hymnoi KW - Hymni Homerici KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures KW - Homeros KW - Homère KW - Homerus KW - Poésie grecque KW - Poètes grecs KW - Hóiméar KW - Hūmīrūs KW - Gomer KW - Omir KW - Omer KW - Omero KW - Ho-ma KW - Homa KW - Homérosz KW - האמער KW - הומירוס KW - הומר KW - הומרוס KW - هومر KW - هوميروس KW - 荷马 KW - Ὅμηρος KW - Гамэр KW - Hamėr KW - Омир KW - Homero KW - 호메로스 KW - Homerosŭ KW - Homērs KW - Homeras KW - Хомер KW - ホメーロス KW - ホメロス KW - Гомер KW - Homeri KW - Hema KW - Pseudo-Homer KW - Pseudo Omero KW - Greek hymns KW - Authoring (Authorship) KW - Writing (Authorship) KW - Literature KW - Hymns, Greek (Classical) - Translations into English KW - Greek poetry - Translations into English KW - Poets, Greek - Biography - Early works to 1800. KW - Griekse literatuur KW - klassieke literatuur UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:434921 AB - "Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess - as Hesiod's Theogony and Words and Days do. A collection of thirty-three such poems has come down to us from antiquity under the title "Hymns of Homer." This new Loeb Classical Library volume contains, in addition to the Hymns, fragments of five comic poems that were connected with Homer's name in or just after the Classical period (but are not today believed to be by the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey). Here too is a collection of ancient accounts of the poet's life." "The Hymns range widely in length: two are over 500 lines long; several run only a half dozen lines. Among the longest are the hymn To Demeter, which tells the foundational story of the Eleusinian Mysteries; and To Hermes, distinctive in being amusing. The comic poems gathered as Homeric Apocrypha include Margites, the Battle of Frogs and Mice, and, for the first time in English, a fragment of a perhaps earlier poem of the same type called Battle of the Weasel and the Mice. The edition of Lives of Homer contains The Contest of Homer and Hesiod and nine other biographical accounts, translated into English for the first time."--Jacket. ER -