Commentary on the Homeric HymnsMachine readable text

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 10

HYMN TO APHRODITE

THE hymn, like its parallel, vi, was a prelude recited at a contest (cf. 5). There is no reason to suppose that it was Cyprian in origin. The MSS. offer several singular variants in the few lines of the hymn.

Commentary on line 1

*kuprogen=h: first in Theog. 199, in the older form Κυπρογενέα, which need not be read in the hymn; Fick (B. B. ix. 203) reads Κυπρογένην. The variations εὐπρογενῆ etc. are due to the initial being left to the scribe to paint in red; mistaken attempts were made to fill up the gap.

*kuqe/reian: Theog. 196, 198 etc., but also in the Odyssey (Od. 8.288 , ς 193) as a proper name. See Roscher Lex. ii. 1769 f.