Lansdale
Lansdale borough (1990 pop. 16,362), Montgomery co., SE Pa.; inc. 1872. It is a farm-processing and industrial center. Manufactures include food products, building materials, apparel, and plumbing equipment. The Jenkins House there dates from 1702.
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Out of the Shadows: New Translations of the Homeric Hymns
Magazine article from: Parnassus : Poetry in Review; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Shadows: New Translations of the Homeric Hymns Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica. Translated...others choose to divide the Hymn to Apollo (III) into its Delian...collectively known as the Homeric Hymns because their meter, vocabulary...
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Rape, marriage or death?: gender perspectives in the Homeric 'Hymn to Demeter.'
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...androcentric: bias. An important exception is the Homeric Hymn to Demeter of the 7th or 6th century B.C., in...the feminine. As Foley says, "in contrast to the Homeric epics, the Hymn puts female experience at the center of the narrative...
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Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...review uses particularly the Homeric Hymns, though Hesiod and other...technique is applied to the Homeric Hymns. In the Hymn to Delian Apollo, Leto wanders...that he had been reading the Homeric Hymns or Sumerian myths. Such a failure...
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Homeric hymns.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2006; 425 words
; 0872207269 Homeric hymns. Trans. by Sarah Ruden. Hackett Publishing Co. 2005 104 pages $29.95 Hardcover PA4025 Poet and translator Ruden presents...
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The politics of Olympus; form and meaning in the major Homeric hymns, 2d ed.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2006; 461 words
; ...The politics of Olympus; form and meaning in the major Homeric hymns, 2d ed. Clay, Jenny Strauss. Bristol Classical Press...Clay (classics, U. of Virginia) shows how the longer Hymns can be considered a separate genre of early hexameter...
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The homeric hymns
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 5/6/1997; ; 679 words
; The Babe's launchings pleased millions, especially the New York Herald Tribune's WE B. Hanna, who, in 1927, admired each of Ruth's 60 trajectories -the "searing, so!dl singing drives" of numbers 48 and 49, the violent art of 54 ("He birthed it" into the stands), and the climactic shot itself ("Next
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A Homeric odyssey in modern Athens?: Zeus worshippers demand access to closed ancient temple for rare ceremony
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 1/20/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...newspaper, citing the group's application to the Culture Ministry to use the site, said the 90-minute event would include hymns, dancers, torchbearers and worshippers in ancient costumes. Greece's archaic religion is believed to have several hundred...
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The loss of roses: mother-daughter myth and relationships between women in Mrs. Dalloway.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: West Virginia University Philological Papers; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...of antiquity" (Foley 65). The Homeric Hymn to Demeter is the oldest known version...which demonstrate its ties to the Homeric Hymn--first, the scene in which...second, Woolf's use of "pseudo-Homeric similes" (Brower 135). The similes...
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Johan C. Thom, Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus. Text, Translation, and Commentary.
Magazine article from: Acta Classica; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Johan C. Thom, Cleanthes' Hymn to Zeus. Text, Translation...ISBN 3-16-148660-9. The hymn addressed to Zeus composed by...Despite its brevity, the hymn is rightly regarded as a text...Parmenides here, and more that is Homeric, Hesiodic, or Aeschylean...
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Homer in the French Renaissance*.(THE 2005 JOSEPHINE WATERS BENNETT LECTURE)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...attributed to Homer at the time--the Homeric Hymns and the Battle of the Frogs and...things which we now prize in the Homeric style: the use of epithets, formulaic...Homer was a complex process. 2. HOMERIC PUBLICATION IN FRANCE There can...
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Homeric Hymns
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Homeric Hymns, of unknown authorship and various dates, are ancient Greek hymns, addressed to various deities and recounting legends relating to them. The hymns were composed by various poets (not including...
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Homer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...subsequent Western epic poetry. The "Homeric question" was the great dispute...of nearly the same length. The Homeric Hymns were falsely attributed to Homer...1965); M. Parry, The Making of Homeric Verse, ed. by A. Parry (1971...
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ancient Greek literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...those of Hesiod , the first didactic poet, remain. The poems dealing with mythological subjects and known as the Homeric Hymns are dated 800-300 BC Only fragments survive of the works of many early Greek poets, including the elegiasts Tyrtaeus...
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paean
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
paean a song of praise or thanksgiving. Recorded from the late 16th century, the word comes via Latin from Greek paian ‘hymn of thanksgiving to Apollo’ (evoked by the name Paian , originally the Homeric name for the physician of the gods).
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Callimachus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...believed in the viability of the Homeric tradition (in modified form...books in the library, from Homeric manuscripts to the latest cookbooks...comedies, and lyrics. Only a few hymns and epigrams have survived...author he was. The six extant hymns are not necessarily his best...
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