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It was good condition, some sticky notes, but no writing and fairly minimul dirt smudges. Besides that it's a great book even better and easy to follow due to the index for newbies to greek mythology.
4.0 out of 5 stars great shape
I give this book 4 stars because the price was reasonable and it was in great condition. I had to get it for school so I wouldn't say I'm enjoying it but everything else about it was great upon arrival.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Wonderful!
Absolutely wonderful! I found the translations to be lovely and it helped inspire me to write some of my own prayers and devotionals to the Greek Gods.
5.0 out of 5 stars It's idiotic to review a classic that has endured for millennia
It's idiotic to review a classic that has endured for millennia, but the translation is good and the edition is nice.
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect
Arrived in good condition and was perfect for my mythology class.
I love the format
Perfect translation. I'll be using these for adding to rituals.
Classic reading
It is a great classic
Excellent.
An excellent translation with very useful notes.
Five Stars
Shipped promptly and was what I was looking for!
Illuminating but Cold
Of the four recent English-language Homeric Hymns translations I found Michael Crudden's OUP work the most thorough introduction, both in terms of attention to textual detail and general airing of backstories for those not so much in the know.To begin, his introduction places the hymns firmly within their context, following the epic poems of Homer and Hesiod, preceding the more definitely literary works of the 5th and 4th centuries BC. He gives a brief sketch of the Hymns structural coherence, a legacy of their epic ancestors, before going on to summarise the four major Hymns themselves (those to Demeter, Aphrodite, Apollo and Hermes) and is happy enough leaving subtleties to the very full explanatory notes and glossary at the back. The select bibliography, whilst including all the important references I've used, are mostly obscure journal articles and there is not nearly enough of the general interest reference so helpful in the Rayor (2004) edition.The poems themselves have been translated into fixed hexameter verse, which Crudden justifies saying, "...certain words and expression were not available to the Greek poets due to the unyielding demands of their metres, and verse translators should operate under similar constraints." For some, this works; read the Bryn Mawr Classical Review for this edition and you'll find the remark, "The author's strength is in the sheer beauty of his translation", yet for me clarity of sense and evocation is worth more and Crudden fails here in comparison to Cashford's (2003) free verse. Consider here a detail from Hymn 21 to Apollo:Cashford: `And it is of youThe poet sings,Speaking sweetlyTo his clear-voiced lyre.At the beginningAnd at the endIt is always of you.'Crudden: ` ...and of youThe sweet bard with clear sounding lyreSings ever both first and last.'And again in Hymn 5 to Aphrodite:Cashford: 'She felt joy in her heart to see themand she filled their hearts with longingso that they all went in twosinto the shade of the valleysand made love with each other.'Crudden: 'Delighted at heart by the sight, she put in their breastsdesire,And all together they mated in pairs through the shadowyvales.'Finally though, in the words of the BMCR, "The line between padding and fluency is hard to draw and comes down to a matter of taste: some like their Budweiser, others Newcastle Brown Ale or even Guinness." At times, Crudden is as crisp and manufactured as a super-chilled lager, and as difficult to swallow; prefer your belly warmed by something smoother and more natural, then this edition isn't for you.Its strengths, fittingly, lie in the detailed dissection of the hymns. Crudden manages to find 14 pages worth of notes for the Hymn to Hermes alone, pulling structural motifs and finer mythological tangles out into the light for us sadly uneducated duffs. He relies heavily on the analytical works of Sowa (1984) and Clay (1989) and these are both well referenced throughout; in fact, Crudden's explanatory notes are analyses in miniature in comparison to Cashford's, whose notes share more with Cruddens glossary.Whilst claiming no intention of a critical edition, this book offers a highly intelligent account of the Homeric Hymns and the reader will come away with a greater sense of Greek mythology and the hymns' relevant context. Buy it with Cashford aswell though, the two are complementary in terms of their stated objectives, and what is lost in one you'll find in the other.
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5.0 out of 5 stars came earlier than estimated time!!
i’m so excited to read!!! it came in GREAT condition!
5.0 out of 5 stars Good condition
It was good condition, some sticky notes, but no writing and fairly minimul dirt smudges. Besides that it's a great book even better and easy to follow due to the index for newbies to greek mythology.
4.0 out of 5 stars great shape
I give this book 4 stars because the price was reasonable and it was in great condition. I had to get it for school so I wouldn't say I'm enjoying it but everything else about it was great upon arrival.
5.0 out of 5 stars Good
Was in perfect condition, exactly what I wanted
5.0 out of 5 stars Love this book
It's good
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Wonderful!
Absolutely wonderful! I found the translations to be lovely and it helped inspire me to write some of my own prayers and devotionals to the Greek Gods.
5.0 out of 5 stars It's idiotic to review a classic that has endured for millennia
It's idiotic to review a classic that has endured for millennia, but the translation is good and the edition is nice.
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect
Arrived in good condition and was perfect for my mythology class.
I love the format
Perfect translation. I'll be using these for adding to rituals.
Classic reading
It is a great classic
Excellent.
An excellent translation with very useful notes.
Five Stars
Shipped promptly and was what I was looking for!
Illuminating but Cold
Of the four recent English-language Homeric Hymns translations I found Michael Crudden's OUP work the most thorough introduction, both in terms of attention to textual detail and general airing of backstories for those not so much in the know.To begin, his introduction places the hymns firmly within their context, following the epic poems of Homer and Hesiod, preceding the more definitely literary works of the 5th and 4th centuries BC. He gives a brief sketch of the Hymns structural coherence, a legacy of their epic ancestors, before going on to summarise the four major Hymns themselves (those to Demeter, Aphrodite, Apollo and Hermes) and is happy enough leaving subtleties to the very full explanatory notes and glossary at the back. The select bibliography, whilst including all the important references I've used, are mostly obscure journal articles and there is not nearly enough of the general interest reference so helpful in the Rayor (2004) edition.The poems themselves have been translated into fixed hexameter verse, which Crudden justifies saying, "...certain words and expression were not available to the Greek poets due to the unyielding demands of their metres, and verse translators should operate under similar constraints." For some, this works; read the Bryn Mawr Classical Review for this edition and you'll find the remark, "The author's strength is in the sheer beauty of his translation", yet for me clarity of sense and evocation is worth more and Crudden fails here in comparison to Cashford's (2003) free verse. Consider here a detail from Hymn 21 to Apollo:Cashford: `And it is of youThe poet sings,Speaking sweetlyTo his clear-voiced lyre.At the beginningAnd at the endIt is always of you.'Crudden: ` ...and of youThe sweet bard with clear sounding lyreSings ever both first and last.'And again in Hymn 5 to Aphrodite:Cashford: 'She felt joy in her heart to see themand she filled their hearts with longingso that they all went in twosinto the shade of the valleysand made love with each other.'Crudden: 'Delighted at heart by the sight, she put in their breastsdesire,And all together they mated in pairs through the shadowyvales.'Finally though, in the words of the BMCR, "The line between padding and fluency is hard to draw and comes down to a matter of taste: some like their Budweiser, others Newcastle Brown Ale or even Guinness." At times, Crudden is as crisp and manufactured as a super-chilled lager, and as difficult to swallow; prefer your belly warmed by something smoother and more natural, then this edition isn't for you.Its strengths, fittingly, lie in the detailed dissection of the hymns. Crudden manages to find 14 pages worth of notes for the Hymn to Hermes alone, pulling structural motifs and finer mythological tangles out into the light for us sadly uneducated duffs. He relies heavily on the analytical works of Sowa (1984) and Clay (1989) and these are both well referenced throughout; in fact, Crudden's explanatory notes are analyses in miniature in comparison to Cashford's, whose notes share more with Cruddens glossary.Whilst claiming no intention of a critical edition, this book offers a highly intelligent account of the Homeric Hymns and the reader will come away with a greater sense of Greek mythology and the hymns' relevant context. Buy it with Cashford aswell though, the two are complementary in terms of their stated objectives, and what is lost in one you'll find in the other.
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