韦斯特 Homeric Hymns. Homeric Apocrypha. Lives of Homer

基本信息

Series:Loeb Classical Library

Format:Hardback 480 pages, Index

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Imprint:LOEB

ISBN:9780674996069

Published:30 Apr 2003

Weight:352g

Dimensions:162 x 115 x 26 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

与这位知名希腊诗人有关的祈祷、趣闻和传记。

希腊史诗的表演通常以一首献给神或女神的赞美诗开始——就像赫西俄德的《神谱》和《工作与时日》一样。从古代流传下来的 33 首这样的诗被称为“荷马赞美诗”。除了赞美诗外，这本 Loeb 古典图书馆的卷册还包含五首与古典时期或之后不久的荷马名字有关的滑稽诗的片段（但今天人们认为《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》的作者并不这么认为）。这里也是关于这位诗人生活的古代记述的集合。

赞美诗的长度范围很广：两首超过 500 行；几首只有六行。其中长的是献给得墨忒耳的赞美诗，讲述了厄琉息斯秘仪的基础故事；以及献给赫尔墨斯的赞美诗，以有趣而著称。收集为荷马伪经的喜剧诗包括《玛吉特》、《青蛙和老鼠之战》，以及首次以英文出版的可能更早的同类型诗歌《黄鼠狼和老鼠之战》的片段。《荷马传》版本包含《荷马和赫西奥德的较量》和其他九篇传记，首次翻译成英文。

马丁·韦斯特的翻译忠实而令人愉悦，并附有完整的注释；他新编辑的文本为许多文本谜题提供了新的解决方案。

Invocations, curiosities, and biographies connected with the famous Greek bard.

Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn ―as Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days do. A collection of thirty-three such poems has come down to us from antiquity under the title “Hymns of Homer.” This Loeb Classical Library volume contains, in addition to the Hymns, fragments of five comic poems that were connected with Homer’s name in or just after the Classical period (but are not today believed to be by the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey). Here too is a collection of ancient accounts of the poet’s life.

The Hymns range widely in length: two are over 500 lines long; several run only a half dozen lines. Among the longest are the hymn to Demeter, which tells the foundational story of the Eleusinian Mysteries; and to Hermes, distinctive in being amusing. The comic poems gathered as Homeric Apocrypha include Margites, the Battle of Frogs and Mice, and, for the first time in English, a fragment of a perhaps earlier poem of the same type called Battle of the Weasel and the Mice. The edition of Lives of Homer contains The Contest of Homer and Hesiod and nine other biographical accounts, translated into English for the first time.

Martin West’s faithful and pleasing translations are fully annotated; his freshly edited texts offer new solutions to a number of textual puzzles.

作者简介

马丁·利奇菲尔德·韦斯特 (Martin Litchfield West)，OM，FBA（1937-2015）曾任伦敦大学希腊语教授和牛津大学万灵学院研究员。

Martin Litchfield West, OM, FBA (1937–2015) was Professor of Greek at the University of London and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.