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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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HYMN TO EARTH THE MOTHER OF ALL

GRODDECK'S theory that this hymn is Orphic has rightly met with no support, except from Crusius (Philolog. xlvii. p. 208, 1889), who compares Orph. h. xxvi. It is a genuine prelude in the Homeric style. There are absolutely no indications of date or place; we may, however, infer that it is of no great antiquity, as the writer seems to have borrowed from the hymn to Demeter; Gemoll compares 7, 12, and 18, 19 (see on h. Dem. 486). The hymn resembles the two following in length, and seems to belong to the same age and perhaps to the same workmanship (Crusius l.c.).

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*pamm/hteiran: a late form for παμμήτωρ (of Earth P. V. 90). On the epithet see Roscher Lex. i. 1570 f.

*)hu+qe/meqlon: only here.