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 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 ...

The Homeric Hymns are a collection of original preludes and Epic lays recited by these Homeric Rhapsodists. They are not the work of any one author or age.

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]

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.”

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.

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

For some say, at Dracanum; and some, on windy Icarus; and some, in Naxos, O Heaven-born, Insewn1; and others by the deep-eddying river Alpheus that pregnant Semele bare you to Zeus the thunder-lover. And others yet, lord, say you were born in Thebes; but all these lie.

Performances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess‒as Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days do. A collection of thirty-three such poems has come down to us from antiquity under the title "Hymns of Homer."