HOMERIC HYMNS

hōmĕrˈĭk, name applied to a body of 34 hexameter poems falsely attributed to Homer by the ancients. Composed probably between 800 and 300 b.c., they are complimentary verses addressed to the various gods, such as Aphrodite, Apollo, Demeter, and Hermes. Although sometimes of great beauty, they are important mainly as prime sources for information about Greek religion and cults. The Margites (7th or 6th cent. b.c.), a comic poem, and The Battle of the Frogs and Mice (5th–2d cent. b.c.), a mock epic, were also incorrectly attributed to Homer.

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Greek Myths and Mesopotamia: Parallels and Influence in the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod
Book by Charles Penglase; Routledge, 1994
Subjects: Hesiod--Theogony, Hesiod--Works And Days, Homeric Hymns, Mythology, Assyro-Babylonian, Mythology, Greek
...Delphi: A Literary Study of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, Mnemosyne Supplementum...Form and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns, Princeton University Press...Sowa, Traditional Themes and the Homeric Hymns, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers...
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Proclus' Hymns: Essays, Translations, Commentary
Book by R. M. Van Den Berg; Brill, 2001
Subjects: Hymns, Greek (Classical)--History And Criticism, Proclus--Ca. 410-485
...1970) has claimed the Homeric Hymn to Ares for Proclus...argumentation: since the hymn to Ares is generally...than the rest of the Homeric Hymns, and since it is impossible...he shows that the hymn to Ares was already present in MSS. of the Homeric Hymns that did not contain...
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Life in the Homeric Age
Book by Thomas Day Seymour; Biblio and Tannen, 1963
Subjects: Civilization, Homeric, Greece--Social Life And Customs, Homer
( Homeric Hymns , iii. 25 ff. ), is not clear. This cithara had sheep-gut strings, wound about a peg ( 407). Achilless lyre, taken from...
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Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns
Book by Kathleen E. Mcvey; Paulist Press, 1989
Subjects: Hymns, Syriac--Translations Into English
...while Shapurs elephants, under attack from insects, floundered in mud. Whereas their valiant efforts inspired Julian to Homeric comparisons, 52. Ephrem was reminded of Noahs ark as well as of the resurrection of Christ after three days in the tomb...
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Pindar and the Renaissance Hymn-Ode, 1450-1700
Book by Stella P. Revard; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001
Subjects: European Poetry--Renaissance, 1450-1600--Greek Influences, European Poetry--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History And Criticism, Laudatory Poetry, Greek--History And Criticism, Odes--History And Criticism, Pindar--Appreciation--Europe, Pindar--Criticism And Interpretation, Pindar--Influence
...s odes. The humanist hymn-odes that resulted...the formal ceremonial hymn. I Renaissance critics...praise of god in formal hymns. They also understood...tor the so-called Homeric Hymns.' Whether long...and in later humanist hymn- odes. See The Homeric Hymns, ed. T. W. Allen...
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Rape, Marriage or Death?: Gender Perspectives in the Homeric 'Hymn to Demeter.'
Journal article by Nanci Debloois; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 76, 1997
Subjects: Goddesses--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Hymn to Demeter (Poem)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Marriage--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Rape--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...term is used in other Homeric Hymns also. In the Hymn to Aphrodite, for example...and Meaning in the Major Homeric Hymns (Princeton U. Press...also R. Parker, "The Hymn to Demeter and the Homeric Hymns," Greece and Rome 38...
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The Spirit of Classical Hymn in Shelley's "hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
Journal article by John Knapp; Style, Vol. 33, 1999
Subjects: Literary criticism, Poetry, Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822)
...with classical hymn is confirmed...translations of the Homeric Hymns, begun roughly...the shorter Homeric Hymns tend to follow...pattern, as the hymn "To Hephaestus...including the Homeric Hymns translated by Shelley, the "Hymn to Intellectual...
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The Johannine Prologue and Jewish Didactic Hymn Traditions: a New Case for Reading the Prologue as a Hymn
Journal article by Matthew Gordley; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 128, 2009
Subjects: Bible, Christianity, Light, Theology
...correctness of the didactic hymn approach. Rather, such an...the dynamic movement of the hymn: its topical development...progymnasmata, and examples of ancient hymns suggest a well-developed...metrical hymns on the model of the Homeric Hymns to prose hymns in the...very different from wisdom hymns, which are often cited as models for this hymn. 5. The existence of many...
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Homeric Recitation, with Input from Phonology and Philology*
Journal article by Avery D. Andrews; Antichthon, Vol. 39, 2005
Subjects: Competition, Linguistics
Homeric Recitation, with Input from...the original performers of Homeric poetry or its antecedents...and the tunes of the Delphic Hymns) can corroborate. This certainly...of the texts of the Delphic Hymns provides a considerable amount...
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Exegesis of Biblical Theophanies in Byzantine Hymnography: Rewritten Bible?
Journal article by Bogdan G. Bucur; Theological Studies, Vol. 68, 2007
Subjects: Biblical hermeneutics--Analysis, Byzantine literature--Analysis, Hymns--Analysis
...in Paradise. (36) Similarly, the hymn penned by the ninth-century nun Cassiane...celebration of the Transfiguration, as the hymns bring together Christs manifestation...the cross on Good Friday, the Advent hymn Veni Immanuel, and the so-called...So far, I have shown that Byzantine hymns, their precursors in Syriac literature...and troparion simply designate various hymns consisting of one stanza, differentiated...several stanzas. The theme song and first hymn of each canticle of a canon is called...
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Messages from the Gods
Magazine article by Richard Garner; New Criterion, Vol. 22, January 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn From Myths (Book)
...chronologically, beginning with Hesiod, Homer, and the major Homeric Hymns. There are two chapters for Greek tragedy, the main...appearance to Aeneas father as described in the Greek Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. Of course, such complex and learned...
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Theopoetry or Theopoetics?
Magazine article by David L. Miller; Cross Currents, Vol. 60, March 2010
Subjects: Hopper, Stanley Romaine--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Philosophical theology--Analysis, Poetic techniques--Methods, Poetics--Methods, Theologians--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...times when a Muse was given credit for the poetry and when other persons names were attached to the writing (e.g., Homeric Hymns, Gospel of Matthew), and again in modernity in the 1968 essay by Roland Barthes, "Death of the Author," there...
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Marsilio Ficino Renaissance Man
Magazine article by Valery Rees; History Today, Vol. 49, July 1999
Subjects: Ficino, Marsilio--Influence, Italy--15th century, Philosophers--Influence, Scholars--Influence
...Constantinople. Ficinos progress in Greek clearly pleased Cosimo. Early fruits of it were translations of Orphic and Homeric hymns. Then Cosimo gave him two extraordinary gifts: the first, in 1462, was a manuscript of the works of Plato, the...
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A-Hunting We Shall Go
Magazine article by John Elvin; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, March 4, 2002
Subjects: Hunting--Calendars, schedules, etc., National Rifle Association--Calendars, schedules, etc., Women--Competitions
...Feb. 25), will reveal that she was very much female. And Artemis was quite the huntress -- according to the Homeric Hymns, when she set out to bring home the bacon, "the thick-shaded forest resounds dreadfully with the cries of beasts...
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Why Smart People Believe People Are Getting Smarter
Magazine article by Hamed Vahidi; Skeptic, Vol. 10, 2003
Subjects: Ehrlich, Robert, Intelligence, Literature, Religion, Science, Shermer, Michael, Writers
...ages, how many works of poetry did Omar Khayyam write? Besides the Odyssey, the Iliad, and the lesser-known The Homeric Hymns, how many volumes of poetry did Homer write? Similarly, some critics regard the Tale of Genji, Shikibu Murasakis...
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newspaper articles on: Homeric Hymns  - 2 results

 
 
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One-Act Play Takes a Spot in Festival
Newspaper article by P.S. Colbert; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 30, 2004
...characters talking," he said. Though an admitted rock music fanatic who delves into rock biographies like "The Homeric Hymns," Schaefer is quick to distance himself from the Fab Four-obsessed Damian, whom he refers to as "a character...
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Finding Shared Ground; Christopher Morley Talks to Composer Alec Roth about His Collaboration with One of Birmingham's Finest Choirs
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), November 17, 2011
Subjects: Composers, Musical groups
...include the world premiere of my latest work for Ex Cathedra: Hymn to Gaia, for childrens choir, mixed choir and bass drum. Ive set two wonderful texts (the Homeric and Orphic Hymns to Gaia) which, although from ancient Greece, speak directly...


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encyclopedia articles on: Homeric Hymns  - 3 results

 
 
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Homeric Hymns
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HOMERIC HYMNS homer ik, name applied to a body of 34 hexameter poems falsely attributed to Homer by the ancients. Composed probably between...
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Homer
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...subsequent Western epic poetry. The "Homeric question" was the great dispute...of nearly the same length. The Homeric Hymns were falsely attributed to Homer...1965); M. Parry, The Making of Homeric Verse, ed. by A. Parry (1971...
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Greek Literature, Ancient
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...those of Hesiod , the first didactic poet, remain. The poems dealing with mythological subjects and known as the Homeric Hymns are dated 800 300 b.c. Only fragments survive of the works of many early Greek poets, including the elegiasts Tyrtaeus...


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