The Homeric Hymns

The Homeric Hymns - A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological

To translate the Hymns usually called Homeric had long been my wish, and, at the Publishers suggestion, I undertook the work. Though not in partnership, on this occasion, with my friend, Mr. Henry Butcher (Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh), I have been fortunate in receiving his kind assistance in correcting the proofs of the longer and most of the minor Hymns. Mr. Burnet, Professor of Greek in the University of St. Andrews, has also most generously read the proofs of the translation. It is, of course, to be understood that these scholars are not responsible for the slips which may have wandered into my version, p. viiithe work of one whose Greek has long rusted in disuse. Indeed I must confess that the rendering Etin for is retained in spite of Mr. Butcher, who is also not wholly satisfied with gledes of light, and with shieling for a pastoral summer station in the hills. But I know no word for it in English south of Tweed. Mr. A. S. Murray, the Head of the Classical Department in the British Museum, has also been good enough to read, and suggest corrections in the preliminary Essays; while Mr. Cecil Smith, of the British Museum, has obligingly aided in selecting the works of art here reproduced. The text of the Hymns is well known to be corrupt, in places impossible, and much mended by conjecture. I have usually followed Gemoll (Die Homerischen Hymnen, Leipzig, 1886), but have sometimes preferred a MS. reading, or emendations by Mr. p. ixTyrrell, by Mr. Verral, or the admirable suggestions of Mr. Allen. My chief object has been to find, in cases of doubt, the phrases least unworthy of the poets. Too often it is impossible to be certain as to what they really wrote. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 16338
Author: Lang, Andrew
Release Date: Jul 20, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English