Overview

With fair-tressed Demeter, the sacred goddess, my song begins,
With herself and her slim-ankled daughter, whom Aidoneus once
Abducted...'

Most people are familiar, at least by repute, with the two great epics of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey, but few are aware that other poems survive that were attributed to Homer in ancient times. The Homeric Hymns are now known to be ...
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The Homeric Hymns

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Overview

With fair-tressed Demeter, the sacred goddess, my song begins,
With herself and her slim-ankled daughter, whom Aidoneus once
Abducted...'

Most people are familiar, at least by repute, with the two great epics of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey, but few are aware that other poems survive that were attributed to Homer in ancient times. The Homeric Hymns are now known to be the work of various poets working in the same tradition, probably during the seventh and sixth centuries BC. They honour the Greek gods, and recount some of the most attractive of the Greek myths. Four of them (Hymns 2-5)
stand out by reason of their length and quality. The Hymn to Demeter tells what happened when Hades, lord of the dead, abducted Persephone, Demeter's daughter. The Hymn to Apollo describes Apollo's birth and the foundation of his Delphic oracle. In the Hymn to Hermes Apollo's cattle are stolen by a felonious infant - Hermes, god of
thieves. In the Hymn to Aphrodite the goddess of love herself becomes infatuated with a mortal man, the Trojan prince Ankhises.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780191623240
  • Publisher: OUP Oxford
  • Publication date: 7/5/2001
  • Series: Oxford World's Classics Series
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Sales rank: 606,166
  • File size: 3 MB

Table of Contents

Introduction
Note on the Translation
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Hymn 1: To Dionysos 3
Hymn 2: To Demeter 4
Hymn 3: To Apollo 23
Hymn 4: To Hermes 43
Hymn 5: To Aphrodite 65
Hymn 6: To Aphrodite 76
Hymn 7: To Dionysos 77
Hymn 8: To Ares 79
Hymn 9: To Artemis 79
Hymn 10: To Aphrodite 80
Hymn 11: To Athena 80
Hymn 12: To Hera 80
Hymn 13: To Demeter 81
Hymn 14: To the Mother of the Gods 81
Hymn 15: To Herakles the Lionheart 81
Hymn 16: To Asklepios 81
Hymn 17: To the Sons of Zeus 82
Hymn 18: To Hermes 82
Hymn 19: To Pan 82
Hymn 20: To Hephaistos 84
Hymn 21: To Apollo 85
Hymn 22: To Poseidon 85
Hymn 23: To Zeus 85
Hymn 24: To Hestia 85
Hymn 25: To the Muses, Apollo, and Zeus 86
Hymn 26: To Dionysos 86
Hymn 27: To Artemis 87
Hymn 28: To Athena 87
Hymn 29: To Hestia 88
Hymn 30: To Earth the Mother of All 89
Hymn 31: To the Sun 89
Hymn 32: To Selene 90
Hymn 33: To the Sons of Zeus 91
To Hosts 92
Explanatory Notes 93
Glossary of Names 147
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