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      Homeric Hymns

      Ancient Greek Hymns Celebrating Individual Gods

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      Table of Contents

       THE SO-CALLED HOMERIC HYMNS

       THE HYMN TO HERMES

       THE HYMN TO APHRODITE

       THE HYMN TO DEMETER

       HYMN TO DEMETER

       CONCLUSION

       HOMERIC HYMNS

       HYMN TO APOLLO

       THE FOUNDING OF DELPHI

       II. HERMES

       III. APHRODITE

       IV. HYMN TO DEMETER

       V. TO APHRODITÉ

       VI. TO DIONYSUS

       VII. TO ARES

       VIII. TO ARTEMIS

       IX. TO APHRODITE

       X. TO ATHENE

       XI. TO HERA

       XII. TO DEMETER

       XIII. TO THE MOTHER OF THE GODS

       XIV. TO HERACLES THE LION-HEART

       XV. TO ASCLEPIUS

       XVI. TO THE DIOSCOURI

       XVII. TO HERMES

       XVIII. TO PAN

       XIX. TO HEPHÆSTUS

       XX. TO APOLLO

       XXI. TO POSEIDON

       XXII. TO HIGHEST ZEUS

       XXIII. TO HESTIA

       XXIV. TO THE MUSES AND APOLLO

       XXV. TO DIONYSUS

       XXVI. TO ARTEMIS

       XXVII. TO ATHENE

       XXVIII. TO HESTIA

       XXIX. TO EARTH, THE MOTHER OF ALL

       XXX. TO HELIOS

       XXXI. TO THE MOON

       XXXII. TO THE DIOSCOURI

       XXXIII. TO DIONYSUS

      INTRODUCTION

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THE SO-CALLED HOMERIC HYMNS

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      “The existing collection of the Hymns is of unknown editorship, unknown date, and unknown purpose,” says Baumeister. Why any man should have collected the little preludes of five or six lines in length, and of purely conventional character, while he did not copy out the longer poems to which they probably served as preludes, is a mystery. The celebrated Wolf, who opened the path which leads modern Homerologists to such an extraordinary number of divergent theories, thought rightly that the great Alexandrian critics before the Christian Era, did not recognise the Hymns as “Homeric.” They did not employ the Hymns as illustrations of Homeric problems; though it is certain that they knew the Hymns, for one collection did exist in the third century B.C.4 Diodorus and Pausanias, later, also cite “the poet in the Hymns,” “Homer in the Hymns”; and the pseudo-Herodotus ascribes the Hymns to Homer in his Life of that author. Thucydides, in the Periclean age, regards Homer as the blind Chian minstrel who composed the Hymn to the Delian Apollo: a good proof of the relative antiquity of that piece, but not evidence, of course, that our whole collection was then regarded as Homeric. Baumeister agrees with Wolf that the brief Hymns were recited by rhapsodists as preludes to the recitation of Homeric or other cantos. Thus, in Hymn xxxi. 18, the poet says that he is going on to chant “the renowns of men half divine.” Other preludes end with a prayer to the God for luck in the competition of reciters.

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