The Homeric Hymns and The Frog-Mouse-Battle - Homer
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The Homeric Hymns invoke many gods. The shorter hymns probably introduce other poems, while the longer ones present amusing accounts, with Homeric authority, of the origins and activities of the gods they address. These constitute important sources of the tales for later mythographers, scholars, and readers. The translations, in a meter like the original Greek dactylic hexameter of the Homeric epic, are intended above all to entertain. Thus the notes are limited to what might help the modern reader or listener understand the works, and the poems are best read aloud with attention to the…mehr

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The Homeric Hymns invoke many gods. The shorter hymns probably introduce other poems, while the longer ones present amusing accounts, with Homeric authority, of the origins and activities of the gods they address. These constitute important sources of the tales for later mythographers, scholars, and readers. The translations, in a meter like the original Greek dactylic hexameter of the Homeric epic, are intended above all to entertain. Thus the notes are limited to what might help the modern reader or listener understand the works, and the poems are best read aloud with attention to the musical meter. The Frog-Mouse-Battle is a short mock-epic probably used as attractive teaching material in Byzantium, so that students could learn while laughing, so to speak. To suggest how that might have succeeded, the translator has appended a discussion between a teacher and four students about a passage which has been omitted or questioned in our time, and might well have been in the early twelfth century, the time of the fictional classroom meeting.
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Homer (750 bc - unknown) Popularly known as Homer, Melesigenes authored two of the oldest extant epics of Greek mythology: the Iliad and Odyssey. Said to have been blind, he narrated both his books as poetry, and they were first written down in the format of a script in the 8th century bce. Melesigenes's travels across the country of Greece as a poet brought him to the Hermaean plain in the county of Cumae where he adopted the name, Homer - a name that was given by the people of the county to blind men. His promises of bringing the county reclaim if they supported him were met with resistance, and this drove the poet to Phocoea, and then to Erythrae. Thereafter, he arrived in the town of Chios, where he married and started a family. Originally written in Homeric Greek, both the Iliad and Odyssey have been translated into multiple languages across the world. His descriptions of love, loss, friendship, anger, angst, war, brotherhood, and kinghood transcend time and age, and continue to pull a reader towards his works. This edition of the Illiad was translated by Alexander Pope (1688-1744), a poet whose satirical poetry won him widespread acclaim. His translations of the Iliad and Odyssey are considered some of his best works till date.
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