The Homeric Hymns
← all texts · Greek · c. 7th–6th c. BCE
What this is
Thirty-three anonymous praise-poems to individual Greek gods, in Homer's meter — the long hymns to Demeter, Apollo, Hermes and Aphrodite are among the finest surviving tellings of their myths. Bundled with Hesiod on Gutenberg.
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What to read alongside it, and why.
Hesiod — Theogony
Greek
Hesiod gives the genealogy; the Hymns give each god their own story.
The Orphic Hymns
Greek
The mystery-cult counterpart — shorter ritual invocations of the same and stranger gods.