Homeric Hymns

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ancient Greek poetic work collection of ancient Greek hymns religious text

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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All labels observed (12)

Label Occurrences
Homeric Hymns canonical 30
Homeric Hymn to Hermes 3
Homeric Hymn to Demeter 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek poetic work ⓘ
collection of ancient Greek hymns ⓘ
religious text ⓘ
actuallyComposedBy multiple anonymous poets ⓘ
approximateNumberOfHymns 33 ⓘ
associatedWithCulture Greek Antiquity ⓘ
surface form: Ancient Greece
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 ⓘ
surface form: Epic Cycle tradition
majorHymn Hymn to Aphrodite ⓘ
Homeric Hymns self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Hymn to Apollo

Hymn to Demeter ⓘ
Homeric Hymns self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Hymn to Hermes
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 Ancient Greek ⓘ
surface form: Homeric Greek

Referenced by (44)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ancient Greek religion → hasSacredText → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
Maia → mentionedIn → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
this entity surface form: Homeric Hymn to Hermes
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 → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
this entity surface form: HomericHymns
Demeter → associatedMyth → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
this entity surface form: Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Demeter → appearsIn → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
Semele → mentionedIn → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
this entity surface form: The Homeric Hymns
Homeric Hymns → majorHymn → Homeric Hymns self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hymn to Apollo
Homeric Hymns → majorHymn → Homeric Hymns self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Hymn to Hermes
Hecate → mentionedIn → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
Persephone → associatedMyth → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
this entity surface form: Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Themis → appearsIn → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
Oceanids → mentionedIn → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
Titans of Greek mythology → describedIn → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
subject surface form: Titans
Mount Cyllene → mentionedIn → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
this entity surface form: Homeric Hymn to Hermes
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 → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
this entity surface form: Ομηρικός Ύμνος στον Απόλλωνα
Selene → mentionedIn → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
Castor → appearsInWork → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
Hymn to Demeter → partOf → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
this entity surface form: corpus of Homeric Hymns
Delian cult of Apollo → associatedMyth → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
this entity surface form: Homeric Hymn to Apollo
Horae → appearsIn → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
Hymn to Aphrodite → partOf → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
Hymn to Aphrodite → positionInCollection → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
this entity surface form: Homeric Hymn 5
Κυλλήνη → mentionedInWork → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
this entity surface form: Homeric Hymn to Hermes
Children of Aphrodite → mentionedIn → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
Autolychus → source → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
Callimachus' Hymn to Artemis → influencedBy → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
Nysa → mentionedIn → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
Amyclae → appearsInWork → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
bow and arrows of Apollo → mentionedIn → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
Ganymede (mythology) → mentionedIn → Homeric Hymns ⓘ
this entity surface form: Homeric Hymns (later tradition)