Homeric Hymns. Homeric Apocrypha. Lives of Homer

Homer, Martin L. West

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Harvard Uni.Press Academi
30 April 2003

Anthologies (non-poetry); Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: poetry & poets; History; Ancient Greek

Series: Loeb Classical Library

"Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess--as Hesiod's Theogony and Works 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.

Martin West's faithful and pleasing translations are fully annotated; his freshly edited texts offer new solutions to a number of textual puzzles."

By: Homer
Edited and translated by: Martin L. West
Imprint: Harvard Uni.Press Academi
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Volume: v. 496
Dimensions: Height: 162mm, Width: 108mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780674996069
ISBN 10: 0674996062
Series: Loeb Classical Library
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 30 April 2003
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

MARTIN L. WEST is Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford.

Reviews for Homeric Hymns. Homeric Apocrypha. Lives of Homer

Martin West wears his formidable learning lightly, and scholars and students of Greek religion and mythology will use this volume as a primary resource. -- Penelope Murray * Times Literary Supplement * A magnificent achievement… As one would expect of a scholar of West’s distinction these are accurate, keenly alive to each nuance of the Greek… Scholars owe a considerable debt of gratitude to West for [this] new Loeb. -- Richard Whitaker * Scholia Reviews *