I begin to sing of rich-haired Demeter, awful goddess - of her and her trim-ankled daughter whom Aidoneus rapt away, given to him by all-seeing Zeus the loud-thunderer.
And so, farewell, Dionysus, Insewn, with your mother Semele whom men call Thyone. Be favourable, O Insewn, Inspirer of frenzied women! we singers sing of you as we begin and as we end a strain, and none forgetting you may call holy song to mind. So spake wise Zeus and ordained it with a nod. And the divine locks of the king flowed forward from his immortal head, and he made great Olympus reel.
The Son of Cronos spoke and nodded with his dark brows. And as these things are three, 4 so shall mortals ever sacrifice perfect hecatombs to you at your feasts each three years." and men will lay up for her 3 many offerings in her shrines. There is a certain Nysa, a mountain most high and richly grown with woods, far off in Phoenice, near the streams of Aegyptus. The Father of men and gods gave you birth remote from men and secretly from white-armed Hera. And others yet, lord, say you were born in Thebes but all these lie. For some say, at Dracanum and some, on windy Icarus and some, in Naxos, O Heaven-born, Insewn 2 and others by the deep-eddying river Alpheus that pregnant Semele bare you to Zeus the thunder-lover. To the Dioscuri THE HOMERIC HYMNS 1 - 3, TRANSLATED BY H. These, as well as several other more recent translations and academic commentaries, appear in the booklist (left below).ģ3. Loeb has now replaced this volume with three new translations, one containing the works Hesiod, another fragments of early Greek Epic, and the third the Homeric Hymns and Homerica. In addition to the Homeric Hymns the volume also contains Hesiod's Theogony, Works and Days, Shield of Heracles, Hesiodic fragments, and fragments of the Epic Cycle poems. The Evelyn-White volume is no longer in print but second-hand copies might be obtained from sellers (click on image right for details). Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press London, William Heinemann Ltd. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica. A few of the shorter poems are clearly Hellenistic, and the Hymn to Ares was probably composed in Roman times. The majority of the collection, including the longer hymns, dates from the C7th - C6th B.C. However they are now regarded as a largely anonymous collection of works. Greek writers assigned several authors including Homer, Pamphos ( Hymn to Demeter), and Cynaethus of Chios ( Hymn to Apollo). The dating and authorship of the Hymns is complex. The largest four are complete epic narrative poems in themselves. The shortest of these are brief invocations which served as preludes to longer festival recitations of epic. They range in length from 3 to 500 lines. THE HOMERIC HYMNS are a collection of thirty-three Greek poems composed in the old Epic style.
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