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The Homeric Hymns and George Chapman's Translation Stephen Scully Scully, Stephen 1
Editor's Introduction Allardyce Nicoll Nicoll, Allardyce, 1894-1976. 41
The Crowne of all Homers Workes
To the Earle of Somerset 49
The Occasion of this Impos'd Crowne 54
Al the Hymnes of Homer
An Hymne to Apollo 57
A Hymne to Hermes 83
A Hymne to Venus 114
To the Same 130
Bacchus, or The Pyrats 132
To Mars 136
To Diana 137
To Venus 137
To Pallas 138
To Juno 138
To Ceres 139
To the Mother of the Gods 139
To Lyon-Hearted Hercules 140
To AEsculapius 140
To Castor and Pollux 141
To Mercurie 141
To Pan 142
To Vulcan 144
To Phoebus 145
To Neptune 145
To Jove 146
To Vesta 146
To the Muses and Apollo 146
To Bacchus 147
To Diana 148
To Pallas 149
To Vesta and Mercurie 150
To Earth the Mother of All 151
To the Sun 152
To the Moone 153
To Castor and Pollux 154
To Men of Hospitalitie 155
Batrachomyomachia 157
Certaine Epigramms and Other Poems of Homer
To Cuma 177
In His Returne, to Cuma 177
Upon the Sepulcher of Midus 177
Cuma, Refusing His Offer t'Eternise Their State 178
An Assaie of His Begunne Iliads 179
To Thestor's Sonne 179
To Neptune 180
To the Cittie Erythraea 180
To Mariners 180
The Pine 181
To Glaucus 181
Against the Samian Ministresse or Nunne 182
Written on the Counsaile Chamber 182
The Fornace, Call'd in to Sing by Potters 182
Eiresione, or The Olive Branch 184
To Certaine Fisher-Boyes Pleasing Him with Ingenious Riddles 185
[Final Verses] 186
Textual Notes 191
Commentary 205
Glossary 213
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Chester Slonaker
reviewed Chapman's Homeric Hymns and Other Homerica on January 05, 2016
Chapman's Homeric Hymns and Other Homerica
Pretty good. I only gave a cursory scan of the commentary which makes up the majority of this...commentary. But from what I read of it, it seemed just fine. I found the intro informative; not thoroughly, but not excessively either. It has some nice comments about the cultural milieu and the style. I really picked this up to have a quick read through of the translation with the Greek facing, which I'd say this book performed that task completely. The translation is prose which doesn't stay true to the hexameters but I think it turns out fine. I've heard it's hard to translate Aratus' succinct yet flowing style into verse in English, but I also hear Poochigian gives it a decent go--perhaps I will find that in my future.
As for the poem itself, the Hellenistic use of epic is great and makes me nostalgic for Homer and Hesiod. At times the innovation can be blinding. The proem is great--Stoic invocation to Zeus and the Muses. Then a large chunk of how to spot constellations with a tad bit of etiological myth (The Maiden-Justice brings up Hesiod's age of metals myth, Orion and the Scorpion) and didactic elements dusted on top. Then there's a boring section about the axes that all the constellations are positioned on and how they revolve. And the last bit is about how you can predict the weather from sky signs but also animal behavior and more didacticism. Overall a fun, short read. Impress your friends with knowledge of this Hellenistic new age Stoic Hesiod! Everyone in the Roman world loved him; Vergil, Ovid, and Cicero all did translations. And, famously, Germanicus also did a Latin translation. He even (likely) was copied by none other than the foremost pastoral poet of the Hellenistic Period, Theocritus. Scholars say that he was born with a lyre in his hands and at the age of 5 he defeated Callimachus (who was also a five year old) in a Hellenistic battle of poetry. uh-RAY-tus
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