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Hesiod, the Homeric hymns, and Homerica (edition 1970)

by Hesiod.,, Homer.,, Hugh G. Evelyn-White (Translator)

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The translations are easy to read and not too difficult to comprehend, while still at the same time accurately rendered. But what makes this book of keen interest is not the attention paid to Hesiods Theogony and Works & Days, nor the anonymous Homeric Hymns, but rather to its meticulous compedium of the lesser-known works it presents. Especially, for those works for which no complete version has survived, only fragments and occassional (later) commentaries. In this volume you discover a wonderful epic poem called The Catalogue of Women and Eoie, of which only about half survives scattered among a hundred or so fragments. You also discover The Shield of Hercules, which some attribute to Hesiod. But most fascinating of all are the fragments of the Epic Cycle, poems written as a sort of history of the Greek people, of which the two great works by Homer (The Iliad and The Odyssey) were the most well-known and the only ones to survive intact. As far as I know, this is the only volume in english which gathers all of these fragments together and attempts to sort them out in some kind of order; for those interested in the ancient epics, this alone makes the edition worth the price. This book is a sobering reminder of just how much has been lost over the centuries, of just how little actually has survived. Sadly, this is now probably the closest anyone will ever get to being able to read The Cypriad or The Melampodia again, and thats a shame.… (more)
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Title:Hesiod, the Homeric hymns, and Homerica
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Other authors:Homer.,, Hugh G. Evelyn-White (Translator)
Info:Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1970.
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ok, proof that i'm a nerd: i love the formula of the hymns. ( )
1 vote heidilove | Feb 16, 2007 |
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  ColgateClassics | Oct 26, 2012 |
Hesiod ( /ˈhiːsiəd/ or /ˈhɛsiəd/;[1] Ancient Greek: Ἡσίοδος, Hēsíodos) was a Greek oral poet generally thought by scholars to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.[2][3] His is the first European poetry in which the poet regards himself as a topic, an individual with a distinctive role to play.[4] Ancient authors credited him and Homer with establishing Greek religious customs.[5] Modern scholars refer to him as a major source on Greek mythology, farming techniques, early economic thought (he is sometimes identified as the first economist),[6] archaic Greek astronomy and ancient time-keeping.
Hesiod practised various styles of traditional verse, including gnomic, hymnic, genealogical and narrative poetry, but he was not able to manipulate them all fluently. Comparisons with Homer can be unflattering. As one modern scholar observed: "It is as if an artisan with his big, awkward fingers were patiently, fascinatedly, imitating the fine seam of the professional tailor."[7]
  gmicksmith | Jun 23, 2012 |
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The translations are easy to read and not too difficult to comprehend, while still at the same time accurately rendered. But what makes this book of keen interest is not the attention paid to Hesiods Theogony and Works & Days, nor the anonymous Homeric Hymns, but rather to its meticulous compedium of the lesser-known works it presents. Especially, for those works for which no complete version has survived, only fragments and occassional (later) commentaries. In this volume you discover a wonderful epic poem called The Catalogue of Women and Eoie, of which only about half survives scattered among a hundred or so fragments. You also discover The Shield of Hercules, which some attribute to Hesiod. But most fascinating of all are the fragments of the Epic Cycle, poems written as a sort of history of the Greek people, of which the two great works by Homer (The Iliad and The Odyssey) were the most well-known and the only ones to survive intact. As far as I know, this is the only volume in english which gathers all of these fragments together and attempts to sort them out in some kind of order; for those interested in the ancient epics, this alone makes the edition worth the price. This book is a sobering reminder of just how much has been lost over the centuries, of just how little actually has survived. Sadly, this is now probably the closest anyone will ever get to being able to read The Cypriad or The Melampodia again, and thats a shame.

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Main Contents of this LCL 57 edition:

Preface
Introduction
Bibliography
Hesiod
The Homeric Hymns, I-XXXIII
The Epigrams of Homer
The Epic Cycle
Homerica
The Contest of Homer and Hesiod
Appendix
Additions to Appendix
Index
Haiku summary

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