To Venus

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. The Homeric Hymns and George Chapman’s Translation 1
4. Editor’s Introduction 41
5. To the Earle of Somerset 47
6. The Occasion of this Impos’d Crowne 54
7. Al The Hymnes Of Homer
8. An Hymne to Apollo 55
9. A Hymne to Hermes 83
10. A Hymne to Venus 114
11. To the Same 130
12. Bacchus, or The Pyrats 132
13. To Mars 136
14. To Diana 137
15. To Venus 137
16. To Pallas 138
17. To Juno 138
18. To Ceres 139
19. To the Mother of the Gods 139
20. To Lyon-Hearted Hercules 140
21. To Æsculapius 140
22. To Castor and Pollux 141
23. To Mercurie 141
24. To Pan 142
25. To Vulcan 144
26. To Phoebus 145
27. To Neptune 145
28. To Jove 146
29. To Vesta 146
30. To the Muses and Apollo 146
31. To Bacchus 147
32. To Diana 148
33. To Pallas 149
34. To Vesta and Mercurie 150
35. To Earth the Mother of All 151
36. To the Sun 152
37. To the Moone 153
38. To Castor and Pollux 154
39. To Men of Hospitalitie 155
40. Batrachomyomachia 157
41. Certaine Epigramms And Other Poems Of Homer
42. To Cuma 175
43. In His Returne, to Cuma 177
44. Upon the Sepulcher of Midus 177
45. Cuma, Refusing His Off er t’Eternise Their State 178
46. An Assaie of His Begunne Iliads 179
47. To Thestor’s Sonne 179
48. To Neptune 180
49. To the Cittie Erythræa 180
50. To Mariners 180
51. The Pine The Pine 181
52. To Glaucus 181
53. Against the Samian Ministresse or Nunne 182
54. Written on the Counsaile Chamber 182
55. The Fornace, Call’d in to Sing by Potters 182
56. Eiresione, or The Olive Branch 184
57. To Certaine Fisher-Boyes Pleasing Him with Ingenious Riddles 185
58. Textual Notes 191
59. Commentary 205
60. Glossary 213