THE HOMERIC HYMNS are a collection of thirty-three Greek poems composed in the old Epic style. They range in length from 3 to 500 lines. The shortest of these are brief invocations which served as preludes to longer festival recitations of epic.

The Homeric Hymns (Ancient Greek: Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι, romanised: Homērikoì húmnoi) are a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns and one epigram.

Homeric Hymns. Hugh G. Evelyn-White. (Greek) search this work. Hymn 1 to Dionysus [HH 1] Hymn 2 to Demeter [HH 2] Hymn 3 to Apollo [HH 3] Hymn 4 to Hermes [HH 4] Hymn 5 to Aphrodite [HH 5] Hymn 6 to Aphrodite [HH 6] Hymn 7 to Dionysus [HH 7]

Homeric Hymns, collection of 34 ancient Greek poems in heroic hexameters, all addressed to gods. Though ascribed in antiquity to Homer, the poems actually differ widely in date and are of unknown authorship.

homeric hymns 5 - 33, translated by h. g. evelyn-white V. TO APHRODITE [1] Muse, tell me the deeds of golden Aphrodite the Cyprian, who stirs up sweet passion in the gods and subdues the tribes of mortal men and birds that fly in air and all the many creatures that the dry land rears, and all the sea: all these love the deeds of rich-crowned ...

Jul 20, 2005 · 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.”

By the goddesses, in hymns often praised, He’d roam the wooded valleys, garlanded Thickly with bay and ivy, and he led 10. The Nymphs. The never-ending wood would sound With their outcry. So, Bacchus, who abound In clusters, hail. May we come gladly here Next season and thenceforth for many a year. XXVII - TO ARTEMIS

George Chapman’s Renaissance translation of the Homeric Hymns is its first rendering into English. Chapman’s eforts stride with robust Shakespearean vigor and are a source of delight even for modern readers, both as poems in our tongue and as lovely stories of the Greek gods.

THE HOMERIC HYMNS The hymns are a group of thirty-three songs composed to honour the gods and goddesses of the ancient Greek pantheon. They are called ‘Homeric’ because it was often assumed in antiquity that they were composed by Homer, the poet to whom the epics called the Iliad and Odyssey were attributed. European

Most of the Greek poems in the collection known as the Homeric Hymns were composed around the 7th century b.c.e. These anonymous works celebrate individual gods in dactylic hexameter (like the epics) and in some cases provide narratives about episodes in the gods' lives.