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Title: Hesiod: The Homeric Hymns and Homerica (Loeb Classical Library #57) by Hesiod, Hugh G. Evelyn-White ISBN: 0-674-99063-3 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1936 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Invaluable for Classicists
Comment: Like all Loeb Classics, this edition is presented with the ancient greek text on the left page, and its english translation on the right, giving students of classical greek an easy cross-reference. The translations are easy to read and not too difficult to comprehend, while still at the same time accurately rendered (unlike many Loeb translations, which are frequently too literal a translation to be readable).
But what makes this book of keen interest is not the attention paid to Hesiod's Theogony and Works & Days, nor the anonymous "Homeric" Hymns, but rather to its meticulous compedium of the lesser-known works it presents. Especially, for those works for which no complete version has survived, only fragments and occassional (later) commentaries.
In this volume you discover a wonderful epic poem called The Catalogue of Women and Eoie, of which only about half survives scattered among a hundred or so fragments. You also discover The Shield of Hercules, which some attribute to Hesiod. But most fascinating of all are the fragments of the Epic Cycle, poems written as a sort of "history" of the Greek people, of which the two great works by Homer (The Iliad and The Odyssey) were the most well-known and the only ones to survive intact. As far as I know, this is the only volume in english which gathers all of these fragments together and attempts to sort them out in some kind of order; for those interested in the ancient epics, this alone makes the edition worth the price.
This book is a sobering reminder of just how much has been lost over the centuries, of just how little actually has survived. Sadly, this is now probably the closest anyone will ever get to being able to read The Cypriad or The Melampodia again, and that's a shame.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very literal translation...very helpful.
Comment: Sometimes when consulting the Loeb Library for a translation of a greek text one finds a version wildly different than the original. This volume of the Loeb niether betrays the text, nor translates with arcane vocabulary (e.g. thou, thee, etc.). All in all, a very useful tool.
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Title: The Odyssey: Books 1-12 (The Loeb Classical Library, No 104) by Homer, George E. Dimock, A. T. Murray ISBN: 0674995619 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: The Iliad I: Books 1-12 (The Loeb Classical Library 170) by Homer, A. T. Murray, William F. Wyatt ISBN: 0674995791 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Greek Iambic Poetry: From the Seventh to Fifth Centuries Bc (The Loeb Classical Library, 259) by Douglas E. Gerber ISBN: 0674995813 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: The Odyssey: Books 13-24 (Loeb Classical Library, No 105) by Homer, George E. Dimock, A. T. Murray ISBN: 0674995627 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: Apollodorus: The Library (Loeb Classical Library #122, Books Iii, Volume 2) by James George Frazer, Apollodorus ISBN: 0674991362 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1960 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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