Homeric Hymns

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The Homeric Hymns are a collection of ancient Greek devotional poems celebrating various gods, traditionally attributed to Homer but actually composed by multiple anonymous poets.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek poetic work
collection of ancient Greek hymns
religious text
actuallyComposedBy multiple anonymous poets
approximateNumberOfHymns 33
associatedWithCulture Ancient Greece
linked to: Greek Antiquity
containsHymnTo Aphrodite
Apollo
Ares
Artemis
Demeter
Dionysus
Helios
Hephaestus
Hera
Hermes
Hestia
Pan
Poseidon
Selene
devotionalFocus Greek gods
Olympian deities
earliestPossibleDate 7th century BCE
genre hexameter poetry
hymn
influenced later Greek religious poetry
language Ancient Greek
laterTransmission manuscript tradition
latestPossibleDate 5th century BCE
literaryTradition Epic Cycle tradition
linked to: Epic Cycle
majorHymn Hymn to Aphrodite
Hymn to Apollo
linked to: Homeric Hymns

Hymn to Demeter
Hymn to Hermes
linked to: Homeric Hymns
metricalForm dactylic hexameter
preservedIn medieval manuscripts
primaryFunction invocation of deities
religious praise
scholarlyDebate authorship
dating
original performance context
styleSimilarTo Homeric epics
traditionallyAttributedTo Homer
transmission oral tradition
usedInContext rhapsodic recitation
ritual performance
usesDialect Homeric Greek
linked to: Ancient Greek

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Ancient Greek religion hasSacredText Homeric Hymns
Maia mentionedIn Homeric Hymn to Hermes
linked to: Homeric Hymns
Hermes appearsInWork Homeric Hymns
Gaia mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
Helios mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
the Muses mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
Hades appearsIn Homeric Hymns
Leto appearsIn Homeric Hymns
Typhoeus mentionedIn HomericHymns
linked to: Homeric Hymns
Demeter associatedMyth Homeric Hymn to Demeter
linked to: Homeric Hymns
Demeter appearsIn Homeric Hymns
Semele mentionedIn The Homeric Hymns
linked to: Homeric Hymns
Homeric Hymns majorHymn Hymn to Apollo
linked to: Homeric Hymns
Homeric Hymns majorHymn Hymn to Hermes
linked to: Homeric Hymns
Hecate mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
Persephone associatedMyth Homeric Hymn to Demeter
linked to: Homeric Hymns
Themis appearsIn Homeric Hymns
Oceanids mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
Titans describedIn Homeric Hymns
subject linked to: Titans of Greek mythology
Mount Cyllene mentionedIn Homeric Hymn to Hermes
linked to: Homeric Hymns
Nymphs of Greek mythology appearIn Homeric Hymns
Autolycus appearsIn Homeric Hymns
Eileithyia mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
Olympian gods mainSourceTexts Homeric Hymns
Calliope mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
Greek mythology hasSource Homeric Hymns
Homeric question concernsWork Homeric Hymns
Ploutos mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
Λητώ appearsIn Ομηρικός Ύμνος στον Απόλλωνα
linked to: Homeric Hymns
Selene mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
Castor appearsInWork Homeric Hymns
Hymn to Demeter partOf corpus of Homeric Hymns
linked to: Homeric Hymns
Delian cult of Apollo associatedMyth Homeric Hymn to Apollo
linked to: Homeric Hymns
Horae appearsIn Homeric Hymns
Hymn to Aphrodite partOf Homeric Hymns
Hymn to Aphrodite positionInCollection Homeric Hymn 5
linked to: Homeric Hymns
Κυλλήνη mentionedInWork Homeric Hymn to Hermes
linked to: Homeric Hymns
Children of Aphrodite mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
Autolychus source Homeric Hymns
Nysa mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
Amyclae appearsInWork Homeric Hymns
bow and arrows of Apollo mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
Ganymede (mythology) mentionedIn Homeric Hymns (later tradition)
linked to: Homeric Hymns