Homeric Hymns
Genre: Paperback
Brand: Hackett Publishing Company
Author: Homer
Price: $13.00
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...