Hymns to apollo5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() hymns 2-5, are more lengthy: (2) to Demeter, 495 lines (3) to Apollo, 546 lines (4) to Hermes, 580 lines and (5) to Aphrodite, 293 lines.Įach of these four longer narratives shows the universe in the process of being ordered, and in which the rule of Zeus is still relatively new and not yet firmly established. Most of them are very short, if not fragmentary, but four of them, i.e. in dactylic hexameters, and in a dialect closely resembling that of Homer. Although it is now clear that they were not written by Homer, they were composed in the old epic style, i.e. In antiquity, they were uncritically attributed to Homer, the earliest reference to them coming from Thucydides (see Bk III. The Hymn to Apollo is the third in a collection of thirty-three anonymous ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods, mostly dating to the seventh century B.C., shortly after the works of Homer and Hesiod had first been written down, and they are therefore among the oldest monuments of Ancient Greek literature. ![]()
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