Homeric Hymns
Poet and translator, Sarah Ruden offers a sparkling new translation of one of our prime sources for archaic Greek mythology, ritual, cosmology, and psychology. The Hymns read as: 'Some say that you were born, O Stitched-In god, At windy Icarus or Draconum, Or Naxos or the deep-whirled Alpheus...
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Poet and translator, Sarah Ruden offers a sparkling new translation of one of our prime sources for archaic Greek mythology, ritual, cosmology, and psychology. The Hymns read as: 'Some say that you were born, O Stitched-In god, At windy Icarus or Draconum, Or Naxos or the deep-whirled Alpheus river, To Semele and Zeus who loves the thunder. Others, my lord, claim Thebes was your beginning - Liars. Far off from men, creation's father, Engendered you unknown to white-armed Hera...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780872207257 (0872207250)
Publish date: October 1st 2005
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Pages no: 104
Edition language: English