The verses have influenced artists from the Renaissance onwards, from Botticelli to Shelley and Tennyson, Andre Gide and Stravinsky.
The Homeric HymnsIntroduction
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Translator's Note
The Homeric Hymns
I. Hymn To Dionysos
II. Hymn To Demeter
III. Hymn To Apollo
Delian Apollo
Pythian Apollo
IV. Hymn To Hermes
V. Hymn To Aphrodite
VI. Hymn To Aphrodite
VII. Hymn To Dionysos
VIII. Hymn To Ares
IX. Hymn To Artemis
X. Hymn To Aphrodite
XI. Hymn To Athena
XII. Hymn To Hera
XIII. Hymn To Demeter
XIV. Hymn To The Mother Of The Gods
XV. Hymn To Herakles, The Lion-Hearted
XVI. Hymn To Asklepios
XVII. Hymn To Dioskouroi
XVIII. Hymn To Hermes
XIX. Hymn To Pan
XX. Hymn To Hephaistos
XXI. Hymn To Apollo
XXII. Hymn To Poseidon
XXIII. Hymn To The Son Of Kronos, Most High
XXIV. Hymn To Hestia
XXV. Hymn To The Muses And Apollo
XXVI. Hymn To Dionysos
XXVII. Hymn To Artemis
XXVIII. Hymn To Athena
XXIX. Hymn To Hestia
XXX. Hymn To Gaia, Mother Of All
XXXI. Hymn To Helios
XXXII. Hymn To Selene
XXXIII. Hymn To The Dioskouroi
Notes
Originally attributed to Homer because of their style and quality,
the hymns are now thought to have been written by of a number of
different poets of the 7th and 6th centuries BC.
Jules Cashford is a writer and lecturer on Mythology. She is the
author of The Myth of the Goddess (Arkana, 1991) & The Myth of the
Moon (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, forthcoming)
Dr Nicholas Richardson is a Fellow in English at Merton College,
Oxford
"The purest expression of ancient Greek religion we possess. Jules Cashford is attuned to the poetry of the Hymns." (Nigel Spivey, Cambridge University)
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