PLAUTUS MENAECHMI PERSEUS ARCHIVE

Probably the best (and easiest) way to read this material is to get hold of the slim Richmond Lattimore volume entitled Greek Lyrics. The Theogony is available here on the Perseus site, and here on the Online Medieval and Classical Library site. It forms a useful point of comparison with Homer, but also connects to Apollonius, Pindar, and others. Hesiod is the other major author of surviving archaic Greek hexameters whether to call them epic, didactic, something else is a bit of a problem, but his material is oddly ambivalent, much more constrained by a self-conscious narrative voice than HomerвЂ™s, and the opening sections are laced with ironic reflections on truth and falsehood.

PLAUTUS MENAECHMI PERSEUS ARCHIVE

It is found here on the Internet Sacred Text Archive site, and here on the Online Medieval and Classical Library site. Some think it is very old, while others believe that it is a Hellenistic parody. ItвЂ™s also not Homer, surely, and of indeterminate antiquity. The pseudo-Homeric Batrachomyomachia (Battle of the Mice and Frogs) is a mock epic, and hilarious, though the subtext is somewhat more serious. Read a few of them, but make sure youвЂ™ve covered the Hymn to Hermes: weвЂ™ll concentrate on that. There is also a reasonably inexpensive edition published by Penguin Classics, available here at Amazon, and a range of translations by various scholars. Some are fairly long, while others are quite short the most interesting of them have an intriguing mixture of explanatory and narrative content. They are addressed to various of the gods, and are sources for some of the earliest mythography we have. The so-called Homeric Hymns are certainly not Homeric in origin, but they are hymns, theyвЂ™re in dactylic hexameter (HomerвЂ™s meter), and theyвЂ™re fairly old - probably from the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. This is the other part of the Homeric tradition, as it formed up late in the ancient world, and it contains some very interesting material. Homeric Hymns, ps.-Homer, Batrachomyomachia, Hesiod, Theogony (selections). Schedule of reading and discussion assignments (listed by week) Western Literature to Dante II Western Literature to Dante II Bruce A.

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