Out of the Shadows: New Translations of the Homeric Hymns

From: Parnassus : Poetry in Review | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Dressler, Adam L | Copyright information

Out of the Shadows: New Translations of the Homeric Hymns

Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica. Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, M.A. Harvard University Press 1982. 657 pp. Out of print.

Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns. Translated by Daryl Hine. The University of Chicago Press 2005. 220 pp. $35.00

The Homeric Hymns. Translated by Charles Boer. Asphodel Press 2006. 216pp. $16.95 (paper)

The Homeric Hymns. Translated by Michael Crudden. Oxford World's Cla...

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