The " Homeric hymn " represents Apollo as a Northern intruder.

The Homeric hymn adds that Apollo appeared as a dolphin and carried Cretan priests to Delphi, where they evidently transferred their religious practices.

The story indicates that Epimenides was probably heir to the shamanic religions of Asia, and proves together with the Homeric hymn, that Crete had a resisting religion up to the historical times.

Another version, in the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo and in an Orphic hymn, states that Artemis was born before Apollo, on the island of Ortygia, and that she helped Leto cross the sea to Delos the next day to give birth there to Apollo.

According to the Homeric hymn, the goddesses who assembled to be witnesses at the birth of Apollo were responding to a public occasion in the rites of a dynasty, where the authenticity of the child must be established beyond doubt from the first moment.

There is a Homeric hymn to Poseidon, who was the protector of many Hellenic cities, although he lost the contest for Athens to Athena.

A hymn to Poseidon included among the Homeric Hymns is a brief invocation, a seven-line introduction that addresses the god as both " mover of the earth and barren sea, god of the deep who is also lord of Helicon and wide Aegae, and specificies his twofold nature as an Olympian: " a tamer of horses and a saviour of ships.

* Kore of Demeter Hagne, in the Homeric hymn.

The Homeric hymn mentions the Nysion ( or Mysion ), probably a mythical place which didn ’ t exist in the map.

Persephone was gathering flowers with Artemis and Athena, the Homeric hymn says — or Leucippe, or Oceanids — in a field when Hades came to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth.

The Homeric hymn mentions the Nysion ( or Mysion ), probably a mythical place which didn ’ t exist in the map.

In the Homeric hymn the ritual is connected with the myth of the agricultural god Triptolemos The high point of the celebration was " an ear of corn cut in silence ", which represented the force of the new life.

In formal terms it is a hymn invoking Zeus and the Muses: parallel passages between it and the much shorter Homeric Hymn to the Muses make it clear that the Theogony developed out of a tradition of hymnic preludes with which an ancient Greek rhapsode would begin his performance at poetic competitions.

As " first to be devoured ... and the last to be yielded up again ", Hestia was thus both the eldest and youngest daughter ; this mythic inversion is found in the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite ( 700 BC ).

Homeric hymn 24, To Hestia, is a brief invocation of five lines:

According to his reading of the painting, the scene was inspired by the text in a Homeric hymn published in Florence in 1488 by the Greek refugee Demetrios Chalkokondyles:

: But more than a rediscovered Homeric hymn was likely in the mind of the Medici family member who commissioned this painting from Botticelli.

This still places the older Homeric Hymns among the oldest monuments of Greek literature ; but although most of them were composed in the seventh and sixth centuries, a few may be Hellenistic, and the Hymn to Ares might be a late pagan work, inserted when it was observed that a hymn to Ares was lacking.

The earliest instances in literature are in Hesiod and the Homeric hymn to Dionysus.

The Homeric hymn to Dionysus has Tyrsenian pirates seizing Dionysus,

At the birth of Apollo on Delos according to the Homeric hymn, the goddesses who bear witness to the rightness of the birth are the great goddesses of the old order: Dione, Rhea, Ichnaea and Themis and the sea-goddess " loud-moaning " Amphitrite.

Tithonus was a Trojan by birth, the son of King Laomedon of Troy by a water nymph named Strymo ( Στρυμώ promises too much, and might beguile Anchises into expecting too much, even an ageless immortality " ( p. 149 ).</ ref > According to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, when Eos asked Zeus to make Tithonus immortal, she forgot to ask for eternal youth ( 218-38 ).

" ( Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite )

The principal early narrative of Aphrodite's seduction of Anchises and the birth of Aeneas is the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite.

Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite.

In the sculptural frieze of the Great Altar of Pergamum ( 2nd century BC ), Dione is inscribed in the cornice directly above her name and figures in the eastern third of the north frieze, among the Olympian family of Aphrodite ; thus she is an exception to the rule detected by Erika Simon that the organizational principle according to which the gods on the Great Altar were grouped, was Hesiodic: her company in the grouping of offspring of Uranus and Gaia is Homeric, as is her possible appearance in the east pediment of the Parthenon.

* The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite ; the original and a verse translation, with introduction and notes ; engravings by Mark Severin ( Golden Cockerel Press, 1948 )

* Aphrodite-two verse translations: the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and the Pervigilium Veneris ; with the originals ; brings together 1939 and 1948 volumes ( Cambridge, 1948 )

Competitive singing is depicted vividly in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo and mentioned in the two Hymns to Aphrodite.

The Mysteries are related to a myth concerning Demeter, the goddess of agriculture and fertility as recounted in one of the Homeric Hymns ( c. 650 B. C .).

In The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the goddess refuses red wine but accepts kykeon made from water, barley and pennyroyal.

* Homeric () > Homeric ( the-ôn ), genitive plural of () " goddess "

Ananke may be related with the Homeric Moira and with Tekmor, the primeval goddess of ordinance in the cosmogony of Alcman ( 7th century BC ).

Ananke seems to have similar functions with the Homeric Moira ( fate ) and with Tekmor ( proof, ordinance ) a primeval goddess in the cosmogony of Alcman ( 7 th century BC ) who were both related with the limit and end of life.

: Homeric Greek sometimes uses different stems:

Certain burial customs observed in the " royal tombs " of Salamis relate directly to Homeric rites, such as the sacrifice of horses in honour of the dead and the offering of jars of olive oil.

The animistic idea as the representation of the imaginative reality, is sanctified in the Homeric poems and in Greek myths, in stories of the god Hephaestus ( Phaistos ) and the mythic Daedalus ( the builder of the labyrinth ) that made images which moved of their own accord.

( Throughout the Homeric poems, several references are made to dogs, vultures, and other creatures that devour the dead.

William Ridgeway made a strong case for the theory that the cradle of the Homeric Achaeans was in Noricum and neighbouring areas.

In Ovid's retelling, placed in the mouth of the aged Homeric hero Nestor, Caenis, the daughter of Elatus ( a Lapith chieftain ) and Hippea, was raped by Neptune, who then fulfilled her request to be changed into a man so that she could never be raped again ; he also made Caenis invulnerable to weaponry.

" I am quite certain ," Leese informed Morshead, that this breakout was made possible by Homeric fighting over your divisional sector.

He had a considerable reputation as a writer of English hexameters and as a judge of Homeric translation: his translation of a brief passage from the Iliad was described by Matthew Arnold, in On Translating Homer, as " the most successful attempt hitherto made at rendering Homer into English ".

This led to a disagreement on whom to make the erastes and whom the eromenos, since the Homeric tradition made Patroclus out to be older but Achilles stronger.

Of his many translations, mention may be made of the Homeric Hymns in collaboration with R. Schwenck ( 1814 ), Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered ( 1818 ) and Siegfrieds Tod from the Nibelungenlied ( 1842 ); he also collected and translated Latin hymns and sacred poetry ( 1819 ).