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Homeric Hymns, The
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Title: The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological
Author: Andrew Lang
Release Date: July 20, 2005 [eBook #16338]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1899 George Allen edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE HOMERIC HYMNS A NEW PROSE TRANSLATION AND ESSAYS, LITERARY AND MYTHOLOGICAL, by Andrew Lang
[Bust of Athene. Forming a vase; found at Athens now in the British Museum. (Fifth Century B.C.): langi.jpg]
DEDICATION
To Henry Butcher A Little Token of A Long Friendship
PREFACE
To translate the Hymns usually called "Homeric" had long been my wish, and, at the Publisher's suggestion, I undertook the work. Though not in partnership, on this occasion, with my friend, Mr. Henry Butcher (Professor of Greek in the University of Edinburgh), I have been fortunate in receiving his kind assistance in correcting the proofs of the longer and most of the minor Hymns. Mr. Burnet, Professor of Greek in the University of St. Andrews, has also most generously read the proofs of the translation. It is, of course, to be understood that these scholars are not responsible for the slips which may have wandered into my version, the work of one whose Greek has long "rusted in disuse." Indeed I must confess tha