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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Observed surface forms (6)

Surface form Occurrences
Homeric Hymn to Demeter 2
Homeric Hymn to Hermes 2
HomericHymns 1

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 (23)

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

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 ⓘ