Chapman's Homeric Hymns and Other Homerica

Homer

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Chapman's Homeric Hymns and Other Homerica

Homer
With contributions by: Stephen Scully
Translated by: George Chapman

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2008

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Volume 169 | Bollingen Series (General)

About this book

George Chapman's translations of Homer--immortalized by Keats's sonnet-- are the most famous in the English language. Swinburne praised their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." And the great critic George Saintsbury wrote, "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what the Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language."

This volume presents the original text of Chapman's translation of the Homeric hymns. The hymns, believed to have been written not by Homer himself but by followers who emulated his style, are poems written to the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. The collection, originally titled by Chapman "The Crowne of all Homers Workes," also includes epigrams and poems attributed to Homer and known as "The Lesser Homerica," as well as his famous "The Battle of Frogs and Mice."

Author / Editor information

Stephen Scully is associate professor of classical studies at Boston University.

Reviews

"It should be very satisfying to sing hymns to gods whom everyone can agree exist, so tune up your pipes for Apollo, the archer and fair king of days, or for Venus, the soft skinned, because both beauty and sunshine deserve our adoration. How appropriate that the voice you can choose here should be Elizabethan, queen of the Enlightenment, and patron of the poets, George Chapman so much among them, who made the old world new, and heard the voice of heroes in all of Homer's songs."—William H. Gass

"Chapman's versions inspired English poets for centuries after his time. They rest on a minute and perceptive reading of the texts. And they retain their power to fascinate and provoke anyone interested in Homer and his afterlife, in Renaissance ideas about classical and modern poetry, or in the development of the language of English poetry."—Anthony T. Grafton, Princeton University

"Oft of one wide expanse had I been toldThat deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;Yet did I never breathe its pure sereneTill I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold"—John Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
The Homeric Hymns and George Chapman’s Translation Stephen Scully Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Editor’s Introduction Allardyce Nicoll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
To the Earle of Somerset Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	47
The Occasion of this Impos’d Crowne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	54
Al The Hymnes Of Homer
An Hymne to Apollo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
A Hymne to Hermes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
A Hymne to Venus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	114
To the Same Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	130
Bacchus, or The Pyrats Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	132
To Mars Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	136
To Diana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
To Venus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
To Pallas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	138
To Juno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	138
To Ceres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
To the Mother of the Gods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
To Lyon-Hearted Hercules Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	140
To Æsculapius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	140
To Castor and Pollux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
To Mercurie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	141
To Pan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	142
To Vulcan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	144
To Phoebus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
To Neptune Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
To Jove Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	146
To Vesta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	146
To the Muses and Apollo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	146
To Bacchus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	147
To Diana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	148
To Pallas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
To Vesta and Mercurie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	150
To Earth the Mother of All Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
To the Sun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	152
To the Moone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
To Castor and Pollux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	154
To Men of Hospitalitie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
Batrachomyomachia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Certaine Epigramms And Other Poems Of Homer
To Cuma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
In His Returne, to Cuma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
Upon the Sepulcher of Midus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
Cuma, Refusing His Off er t’Eternise Their State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	178
An Assaie of His Begunne Iliads Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
To Thestor’s Sonne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
To Neptune Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	180
To the Cittie Erythræa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	180
To Mariners Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	180
The Pine The Pine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
To Glaucus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
Against the Samian Ministresse or Nunne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	182
Written on the Counsaile Chamber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	182
The Fornace, Call’d in to Sing by Potters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	182
Eiresione, or The Olive Branch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	184
To Certaine Fisher-Boyes Pleasing Him with Ingenious Riddles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
Textual Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	191
Commentary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213

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March 9, 2021

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9780691227535

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240

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Poetry; Batrachomyomachia; Strait; Nymph; Muse; Misery (novel); Ganymedes (eunuch); Fates; Epigram; Cynthus; Hymen (god); Invention; Rely (brand); Ingenuity; Deed; Euboea; Lesbos; Homeric Hymns; Anchises; Glossary; Illustration; Apollo; Clime; Writing; Theogony; Foe (novel); Life of Homer (Pseudo-Herodotus); Contest of Homer and Hesiod; Homer; Hesiod; Trickster; Castor and Pollux; Dionysus; The Telling; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Epic poetry; Impiety; English poetry; Uncertainty; Asclepius; Spelt; On First Looking into Chapman's Homer; Epithet; Dryope; Couplet; Margites; Iambic pentameter; Rhetoric; Stesichorus; Iliad; Henry Reynolds (poet); Publication; Hexameter; Philodemus; Greek name; Punctuation; Diodorus Siculus; Greek mythology; Loeb Classical Library; Typhon; Lyric poetry; Aesop's Fables; Narrative; Charon (mythology); Romanticism; Taygetus; Clytemnestra; Ottava rima; Tyndareus; Long poem

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