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The Homeric Hymns

The Homeric Hymns

Evelyn-White, Hugh G.
Homer

Paperback

Ancient GreeceFiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1724838989
ISBN13: 9781724838988
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 6 2018
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.15 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
The Homeric Hymns by Homer and edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. The Homeric Hymns are a collection of thirty-three anonymous ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. The hymns are Homeric in the sense that they employ the same epic meter-dactylic hexameter-as the Iliad and Odyssey, use many similar formulas and are couched in the same dialect. They were uncritically attributed to Homer himself in antiquity-from the earliest written reference to them, Thucydides (iii.104)-and the label has stuck. The whole collection, as a collection, is Homeric in the only useful sense that can be put upon the word, A. W. Verrall noted in 1894, that is to say, it has come down labeled as 'Homer' from the earliest times of Greek book-literature. The oldest of the hymns were probably written in the seventh century BC, somewhat later than Hesiod and the usually accepted date for the writing down of the Homeric epics. This still places the older Homeric Hymns among the oldest monuments of Greek literature; but although most of them were composed in the seventh and sixth centuries, a few may be Hellenistic, and the Hymn to Ares might be a late pagan work, inserted when it was observed that a hymn to Ares was lacking.

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