The Homeric Hymns is a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. The hymns employ the same epic meter—dactylic hexameter—as the Iliad and Odyssey, use many similar formulas and are couched in the same dialect.
Contents:
To Dionysus
To Demeter
To Apollo
To Hermes
To Aphrodite
To Aphrodite
To Dionysus
To Ares
To Artemis
To Aphrodite
To Athena
To Hera
To Demeter
To the Mother of the Gods
To Heracles With the Heart of a Lion
To Asclepius
To the Dioscuri
To Hermes
To Pan
To Hephaestus
To Apollo
To Poseidon
To Zeus
To Hestia
To the Muses and Apollo
To Dionysus
To Artemis
To Athena
To Hestia
To Gaia, Mother of All
To Helios
To Selene
To the Dioscuri
Om författaren
Homer was the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that are the foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Many accounts of Homer’s life circulated in classical antiquity, the most widespread being that he was a blind bard from Ionia, a region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey.