Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer

Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer
Title Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer PDF eBook
Author Martin Litchfield West
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Pages 488
Release 2003
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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In addition to the Homeric Hymns, this volume contains fragments of five comic poems that were connected with Homer's name in or just after the Classical period, along with several ancient accounts of the poet's life.

Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer

Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer
Title Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer PDF eBook
Author Martin Litchfield West
Publisher
Pages 488
Release 2003
Genre Biography & Autobiography
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In addition to the Homeric Hymns, this volume contains fragments of five comic poems that were connected with Homer's name in or just after the Classical period, along with several ancient accounts of the poet's life.

Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer

Homeric Hymns, Homeric Apocrypha, Lives of Homer
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Hesiod

Hesiod
Title Hesiod PDF eBook
Author Hesiod
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Pages 344
Release 1832
Genre English poetry
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Three Homeric Hymns

Three Homeric Hymns
Title Three Homeric Hymns PDF eBook
Author Homerus
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 289
Release 2010-04-22
Genre History
ISBN 0521451582

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This book is specifically designed for upper-level students of these major narrative works of early Greek poetry.

Greek Epic Fragments from the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC

Greek Epic Fragments from the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC
Title Greek Epic Fragments from the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC PDF eBook
Author Martin Litchfield West
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Pages 340
Release 2003
Genre Fiction
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Cyclic verse. Greek epics of the archaic period include poems that narrate a particular heroic episode or series of episodes and poems that recount the long-term history of families or peoples. They are an important source of mythological record. Here is a new text and translation of the examples of this poetry that have come down to us. The heroic epic is represented by poems about Heracles and Theseus, and by two great epic cycles: the Theban Cycle, which tells of the failed assault on Thebes by the Seven and the subsequent successful assault by their sons; and the Trojan Cycle, which includes Cypria, Little Iliad, and The Sack of Ilion. Among the genealogical epics are poems in which Eumelus creates a prehistory for Corinth and Asius creates one for Samos. In presenting the extant fragments of these early epic poems, Martin West provides very helpful notes. His Introduction places the epics in historical context.

The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice

The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice
Title The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice PDF eBook
Author A. E. Stallings
Publisher Paul Dry Books
Pages 118
Release 2020-04-28
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1589881427

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"A virtuosic, witty, charming translation of the greatest epic ever written about mice, with wonderful illustrations by Grant Silverstein. Stallings’ elegant rhyming couplets are the perfect choice to honor the mousy Muse."—Emily Wilson, Professor of Classics, University of Pennsylvania From the award-winning poet and translator A. E. Stallings comes a lively new edition of the ancient Greek fable The Battle between the Frogs and the Mice. Originally attributed to Homer, but now thought to have been composed centuries later by an unknown author, The Battle is the tale of a mouse named Crumbsnatcher who is killed by the careless frog King Pufferthroat, sparking a war between the two species. This dark but delightful parable about the foolishness of war is illustrated throughout in striking drawings by Grant Silverstein. The clever introduction is written from the point of view of a mouse who argues that perhaps the unknown author of the fable is not a human after all: “Who better than a mouse, then, to compose our diminutive, though not ridiculous, epic, a mouse born and bred in a library, living off lamp oil, ink, and the occasional nibble of a papyrus, constantly perched on the shoulder of some scholar or scholiast of Homer, perhaps occasionally whispering in his ear? Mouse, we may remember, is only one letter away from Muse.” "[Stallings] couplets . . . have a lively, nimble music that should captivate modern ears . . . Providing an earthy, oboe-like obligato to Ms. Stallings's airs are the illustrations of Grant Silverstein, cross-hatched sketches that multiply like mice on the page . . . The Battle, in which beans are happily worn rather than eaten, still has the power to delight."—Wall Street Journal A. E. Stallings is an American poet who has lived in Athens, Greece since 1999. She studied Classics at the University of Georgia, and later at Oxford University. She has published four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile (which won the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award), Hapax (recipient of the Poets’ Prize), Olives (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Like (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry). Her translation of Lucretius (into rhyming fourteeners), The Nature of Things, was called by Peter Stothard in the TLS “One of the most extraordinary classical translations of recent times.” Grant Silverstein is an American artist who specializes in etchings of a narrative character and in studies of figures, landscapes, and animals. With his wife and two cats, he spends winters holed up in his studio in rural Pennsylvania, where he uses a catch and release system for visiting mice and the occasional frog. Come spring, he ventures forth to display his work at outdoor festivals; he feels fortunate to have made his living this way for forty years. He has illustrated two previous Paul Dry Books titles, Davey McGravy by David Mason and The Verb 'To Bird' by Peter Cashwell.