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 APOLLO

HYMN TO HERMES

HYMN TO APHRODITE

HYMN TO APHRODITE

HYMN TO DIONYSUS

HYMN TO ARES

HYMN TO ARTEMIS

HYMN TO APHRODITE

HYMN TO ATHENA

HYMN TO HERA

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 HERMES

HYMN TO PAN

HYMN TO HEPHAESTUS

HYMN TO APOLLO

HYMN TO POSEIDON

HYMN TO ZEUS

HYMN TO HESTIA

HYMN TO THE MUSES AND APOLLO

HYMN TO DIONYSUS

HYMN TO ARTEMIS

HYMN TO ATHENA

HYMN TO HESTIA

HYMN TO EARTH THE MOTHER OF ALL

HYMN TO HELIOS

HYMN TO SELENE

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 APOLLO

HYMN TO HERMES

HYMN TO APHRODITE

HYMN TO APHRODITE

HYMN TO DIONYSUS

HYMN TO ARES

HYMN TO ARTEMIS

HYMN TO APHRODITE

HYMN TO ATHENA

HYMN TO HERA

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 HERMES

HYMN TO PAN

HYMN TO HEPHAESTUS

HYMN TO APOLLO

HYMN TO POSEIDON

HYMN TO ZEUS

HYMN TO HESTIA

HYMN TO THE MUSES AND APOLLO

HYMN TO DIONYSUS

HYMN TO ARTEMIS

HYMN TO ATHENA

HYMN TO HESTIA

HYMN TO EARTH THE MOTHER OF ALL

HYMN TO HELIOS

HYMN TO SELENE

HYMN TO THE DIOSCURI


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Poem 17

HYMN TO THE DIOSCURI

THE lines are no doubt an abbreviation of the longer hymn to the Dioscuri (xxxiii), just as the following hymn is borrowed rom iv. For the parentage of the Tyndarids (from Zeus) see on xxxiii. 2. Lines 3, 4 are copied with variations from xxxiii. 4, 5. The hymn was apparently not intended for a prelude, as the verse of transition (xxxiii. 19) is here omitted.


Commentary on line 1

a)ei/seo: the solitary instance of this aor. imper. middle has the authority of the MSS.; in xx. 1 ἀείδεο, which Stephanus read here; ἀείσεο was maintained by Buttmann (Khner-Blass ii. p. 103).