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 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

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Nymphs of Greek mythology appearIn Homeric Hymns
Autolycus appearsIn Homeric Hymns
Demeter appearsIn Homeric Hymns
Hades appearsIn Homeric Hymns
Leto appearsIn Homeric Hymns
Themis appearsIn Homeric Hymns
Hermes appearsInWork Homeric Hymns
Demeter associatedMyth Homeric Hymns
this entity surface form: Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Persephone associatedMyth Homeric Hymns
this entity surface form: Homeric Hymn to Demeter
Titans of Greek mythology describedIn Homeric Hymns
subject surface form: Titans
Ancient Greek religion hasSacredText 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
Eileithyia mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
Gaia mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
Hecate mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
Helios mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
Maia mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
this entity surface form: Homeric Hymn to Hermes
Mount Cyllene mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
this entity surface form: Homeric Hymn to Hermes
Oceanids mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
Semele mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
this entity surface form: The Homeric Hymns
Typhoeus mentionedIn Homeric Hymns
this entity surface form: HomericHymns
the Muses mentionedIn Homeric Hymns