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Homeric Hymns (hōmĕr`ĭk), name applied to a body of 34 hexameter poems falsely attributed to Homer Homer, principal figure of ancient Greek literature; the first European poet.
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Two epic poems are attributed to Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey. ..... Click the link for more information. 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. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | The Homeric Hymn ends with Zeus appointing his son "messenger to Hades" (405). While it contains, in addition to all the texts attributed to Homer at the time--the Homeric Hymns and the Battle of the Frogs and Mice as well as the Iliad and the Odyssey--the lives of Homer thought to be by Herodotus and Plutarch, and an essay by Dio Chrysostom, there is barely a word of explanation in Latin other than an epistle by the editor Bernardo Nerlio to Piero de' Medici. Lefkowitz notes that Virgil crafts the visit of Venus to her son Aeneas so that it is a recognizable allusion to the goddess's earlier appearance to Aeneas' father as described in the Greek Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. |
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