The Hymns of Hermes
Author : George Robert Stow Mead
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Egypt
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Author : George Robert Stow Mead
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Egypt
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Author : G.R.S Mead
Publisher : SSEL
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 2021-05-02
Category : Religion
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Clement of Alexandria tells us that the whole of the religious philosophy-that is, the wisdom, discipline and multifarious arts and sciences-of the Egyptian priesthood was contained in the Books of Hermes, that is of Thoth. These Books, he informs us further, were classified under forty-two heads and divided into a number of groups according to the various septs or divisions of the priests.It is of the Hymns of this Thrice-greatest Hermes that I shall treat in the present small volume hymns that were inspired by the still-living tradition of what was best in the wisdom of ancient Egypt, as 'philosophized' through minds trained in Greek thought, and set forth in the fair speech of golden-tongued Hellas.
Author : Homerus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0521451582
This book is specifically designed for upper-level students of these major narrative works of early Greek poetry.
Author : Athanassios Vergados
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110259702
The Hymn to Hermes, while surely the most amusing of the so-called Homeric Hymns, also presents an array of challenging problems. In just 580 lines, the newborn god invents the lyre and sings a hymn to himself, travels from Cyllene to Pieria to steal Apollo’s cattle, organizes a feast at the river Alpheios where he serves the meat of two of the stolen animals, cunningly defends his innocence, and is finally reconciled to Apollo, to whom he gives the lyre in exchange for the cattle. This book provides the first detailed commentary devoted specifically to this unusual poem since Radermacher’s 1931 edition. The commentary pays special attention to linguistic, philological, and interpretive matters. It is preceded by a detailed introduction that addresses the Hymn’s ideas on poetry and music, the poem’s humour, the Hymn’s relation to other archaic hexameter literature both in thematic and technical aspects, the poem’s reception in later literature, its structure, the issue of its date and place of composition, and the question of its transmission. The critical text, based on F. Càssola’s edition, is equipped with an apparatus of formulaic parallels in archaic hexameter poetry as well as possible verbal echoes in later literature.
Author : George Robert Stow Mead
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Page : 92 pages
File Size : 19,58 MB
Release : 1907
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Author : G.R.S. Mead
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 1993-10-01
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ISBN : 9781856521437
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Page : 84 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 1907
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Author : George Robert Stow Mead
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 1991-07-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781558181441
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Page : 86 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 2021-02-27
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Thoth, as the inspirer of all sacred writings and the president of all priestly discipline, was, as Iamblichus tells us, a name which was held by the Egyptians to be "common to all priests"-that is to say, every priest as priest was a Thoth, because he showed forth in his sacred office some characteristic or other of the Great Priest or Master Hierophant among the Gods whose earthy name was Thoth Tehuti. Thoth was thus the Oversoul of all priests; and when some of the Greeks came to know better what the inner discipline of the true priestly mysteries connoted, they so felt the inadequacy of plain Hermes as a suitable equivalent for the Egyptian name which designated this great ideal, that they qualified 'Egyptian Hermes' with the honorific epithet 'Thrice-greatest.' It is of the Hymns of this Thrice-greatest Hermes that I shall treat in the present small volume hymns that were inspired by the still-living tradition of what was best in the wisdom of ancient Egypt, as 'philosophized' through minds trained in Greek thought, and set forth in the fair speech of golden-tongued Hellas.
Author : G. R. S. Mead
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,42 MB
Release : 2014-03
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ISBN : 9781497943636
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1898 Edition.