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Commentary on the Homeric Hymns
By Thomas W. Allen
London Macmillan 1904

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THE HOMERIC HYMNS IN ANTIQUITY
   FIFTH CENTURY B.C.
   THIRD CENTURY B.C.
   FIRST CENTURY B.C.⁶
   SECOND CENTURY A.D.

THE NATURE OF THE HOMERIC HYMNS

HYMN TO DIONYSUS

HYMN TO DEMETER

HYMN TO APHRODITE

HYMN TO APHRODITE

HYMN TO DIONYSUS

HYMN TO ARTEMIS

HYMN TO APHRODITE

HYMN TO DEMETER

HYMN TO THE MOTHER OF THE GODS

HYMN TO HERACLES THE LION-HEARTED

HYMN TO ASCLEPIUS

HYMN TO THE DIOSCURI

HYMN TO HEPHAESTUS

HYMN TO POSEIDON

HYMN TO THE MUSES AND APOLLO

HYMN TO DIONYSUS

HYMN TO ARTEMIS

HYMN TO EARTH THE MOTHER OF ALL

HYMN TO THE DIOSCURI

THE HOMERIC HYMNS IN ANTIQUITY
   FIFTH CENTURY B.C.
   THIRD CENTURY B.C.
   FIRST CENTURY B.C.⁶
   SECOND CENTURY A.D.

THE NATURE OF THE HOMERIC HYMNS

HYMN TO DIONYSUS

HYMN TO DEMETER

HYMN TO APHRODITE

HYMN TO APHRODITE

HYMN TO DIONYSUS

HYMN TO ARTEMIS

HYMN TO APHRODITE

HYMN TO DEMETER

HYMN TO THE MOTHER OF THE GODS

HYMN TO HERACLES THE LION-HEARTED

HYMN TO ASCLEPIUS

HYMN TO THE DIOSCURI

HYMN TO HEPHAESTUS

HYMN TO POSEIDON

HYMN TO THE MUSES AND APOLLO

HYMN TO DIONYSUS

HYMN TO ARTEMIS

HYMN TO EARTH THE MOTHER OF ALL

HYMN TO THE DIOSCURI

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Poem 27

HYMN TO ARTEMIS

THE hymn to Artemis, which gives a pleasing picture of the youthful goddess returning from the chase to take part in the dance at Delphi, seems to belong to a good period. The writer was almost certainly influenced by the hymn to Apollo; Gemoll compares lines 5 f. with the opening scene of that hymn, and 15 f. with h. Apoll. 189 f. It does not, however, follow as a matter of course that the writer knew the hymn to Apollo as an undivided document, for he might have borrowed from two separate hymns. The prelude may have been used at Delphi, where portions of ancient poetry, bearing on Delphi and the god, were recited (Dittenberger Sylloge 663); but it is very possible that the scene at that place (13 f.) is simply introduced for literary effect.

Commentary on line 1

xrushla/katon keladein/hn: see on h. Aphr. 16.