Chapman's Homeric Hymns and Other Homerica

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Chapman's Homeric Hymns and Other Homerica

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Translated by: and
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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2008

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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The Homeric Hymns and George Chapman’s Translation
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Stephen Scully

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Editor’s Introduction
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To the Earle of Somerset
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The Occasion of this Impos’d Crowne
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Al The Hymnes Of Homer
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An Hymne to Apollo
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A Hymne to Hermes
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A Hymne to Venus
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To the Same
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Bacchus, or The Pyrats
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To Mars
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To Diana
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To Venus
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To Pallas
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To Juno
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To Ceres
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To the Mother of the Gods
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To Lyon-Hearted Hercules
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To Æsculapius
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To Castor and Pollux
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To Mercurie
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To Pan
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To Vulcan
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To Phoebus
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To Neptune
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To Jove
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To Vesta
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To the Muses and Apollo
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To Bacchus
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To Diana
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To Pallas
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To Vesta and Mercurie
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To Earth the Mother of All
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To the Sun
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To the Moone
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To Castor and Pollux
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To Men of Hospitalitie
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Batrachomyomachia
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Certaine Epigramms And Other Poems Of Homer
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To Cuma
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In His Returne, to Cuma
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Upon the Sepulcher of Midus
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Cuma, Refusing His Off er t’Eternise Their State
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An Assaie of His Begunne Iliads
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To Thestor’s Sonne
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To Neptune
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To the Cittie Erythræa
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To Mariners
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The Pine The Pine
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To Glaucus
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Against the Samian Ministresse or Nunne
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Written on the Counsaile Chamber
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The Fornace, Call’d in to Sing by Potters
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Eiresione, or The Olive Branch
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To Certaine Fisher-Boyes Pleasing Him with Ingenious Riddles
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Textual Notes
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Commentary
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Glossary
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April 5, 2022

eBook ISBN:

9780691227535

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691227535

eBook ISBN: 9780691227535

Keywords for this book

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For a non-specialist adult audience

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Chapman's Homeric Hymns and Other Homerica

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

The Homeric Hymns and George Chapman’s Translation

Editor’s Introduction

To the Earle of Somerset

The Occasion of this Impos’d Crowne

An Hymne to Apollo

A Hymne to Hermes

A Hymne to Venus

To the Same

Bacchus, or The Pyrats

To Mars

To Diana

To Venus

To Pallas

To Juno

To Ceres

To the Mother of the Gods

To Lyon-Hearted Hercules

To Æsculapius

To Castor and Pollux

To Mercurie

To Pan

To Vulcan

To Phoebus

To Neptune

To Jove

To Vesta

To the Muses and Apollo

To Bacchus

To Diana

To Pallas

To Vesta and Mercurie

To Earth the Mother of All

To the Sun

To the Moone

To Castor and Pollux

To Men of Hospitalitie

Batrachomyomachia

To Cuma

In His Returne, to Cuma

Upon the Sepulcher of Midus

Cuma, Refusing His Off er t’Eternise Their State

An Assaie of His Begunne Iliads

To Thestor’s Sonne

To Neptune

To the Cittie Erythræa

To Mariners

The Pine The Pine

To Glaucus

Against the Samian Ministresse or Nunne

Written on the Counsaile Chamber

The Fornace, Call’d in to Sing by Potters

Eiresione, or The Olive Branch

To Certaine Fisher-Boyes Pleasing Him with Ingenious Riddles

Textual Notes

Commentary

Glossary

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