text and translation: Hymn 5: to Aphrodite - Hymn 6: to Aphrodite - Hymn 9: to. 5 In lines 16 the hymn starts off with an invocation to the Muse to narrate. And now I will remember you and another song also. This book offers a complete text of the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite in. Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite: Tradition and Rhetoric, Praise and Blame 1. (19–20) Hail, sweetly-winning, coy-eyed goddess! Grant that I may gain the victory in this contest, and order you my song. § 5 While she was playing with Oceans deep-breasted daughters. Each one of them prayed that he might lead her home to be his wedded wife, so greatly were they amazed at the beauty of violet-crowned Cytherea.

The hymns are 'Homeric' in the sense that they employ the same epic meter dactylic hexameter as the Iliad and Odyssey, use many similar formulas and. And when they had fully decked her, they brought her to the gods, who welcomed her when they saw her, giving her their hands. The Homeric Hymns (Ancient Greek:, romanized: Homrikoì húmnoi) are a collection of thirty-three anonymous ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. They clothed her with heavenly garments: on her head they put a fine, well-wrought crown of gold, and in her pierced ears they hung ornaments of orichalc and precious gold, and adorned her with golden necklaces over her soft neck and snow-white breasts, jewels which the gold-filleted Hours wear themselves whenever they go to their father’s house to join the lovely dances of the gods. There the moist breath of the western wind wafted her over the waves of the loud-moaning sea in soft foam, and there the gold-filleted Hours welcomed her joyously. TO APHRODITE 1 Muse, tell me the deeds of golden Aphrodite the Cyprian, who stirs up sweet passion in the gods and subdues the tribes of mortal men and birds that fly in air and all the many creatures that the dry land rears, and all the sea: all these love the deeds of rich-crowned. (1–18) I will sing of stately Aphrodite, gold-crowned and beautiful, whose dominion is the walled cities of all sea-set Cyprus. It has been suggested that the Homeric Hymns as a type of early hexameter poetry form a complementary genre, which together with the Homeric epics and the Hesiodic poems charts the nature of the gods and their relationship with mankind.

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