The story is told in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.

But the island of Delos ( or Ortygia in the Homeric Hymn to Artemis ) disobeyed Hera, and Leto gave birth there.

The Homeric Hymn to Delphic Apollo recalled that the ancient name of this site had been Krisa.

The epithet is connected with dolphins ( Greek δελφίς ,- ῖνος ) in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo ( line 400 ), recounting the legend of how Apollo first came to Delphi in the shape of a dolphin, carrying Cretan priests on his back.

Other details are given by Pausanias ( 10. 5. 9-13 ) and the Homeric Hymn to Apollo ( 294 ff .).

* Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollo

For example, the name Delphi and its associated deity, Apollon Delphinios, are explained in the Homeric Hymn which tells of how Apollo carried Cretans over the sea in the shape of a dolphin () to make them his priests.

According to the Homeric Hymn III to Delian Apollo, Hera detained Eileithyia to already prevent Leto from going into labor with Artemis and Apollo, since the father was Zeus.

The Homeric Hymn to Pythian Apollo makes the monster Typhaon the offspring of archaic Hera in her Minoan form, produced out of herself, like a monstrous version of Hephaestus, and whelped in a cave in Cilicia.

The characterization of Homer as a blind bard goes back to some verses in the Delian Hymn to Apollo, the third of the Homeric Hymns, verses later cited to support this notion by Thucydides.

It seems that there may have been two canes, with time in a cast, one of a shepherd's staff, as stated in the Homeric Hymn, and the other a magic wand, according to some authors.

By contrast, Leto labored for nine nights and nine days for Apollo, according to the Homeric Hymn to Delian Apollo, in the presence of all the first among the deathless goddesses as witnesses: Dione, Rhea, Ichnaea, Themis and the " loud-moaning " sea-goddess Amphitrite.

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.

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.

In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, King Celeus is said to have been one of the first people to learn the secret rites and mysteries of her cult.

The earliest account of the origin of the Delphic oracle is provided in the Homeric Hymn to Delphic Apollo, which recent scholarship dates within a narrow range, ca.

* Homeric Hymn to Apollo, at the Perseus Project

" In fact one modern scholar has observed in Bacchylides a general tendency towards imitation, sometimes approaching the level of quotation: in this case, the eagle simile in Ode 5 may be thought to imitate a passage in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter ( 375 – 83 ), and the countless leaves fluttering in the wind on " the gleaming headlands of Ida ", mentioned later in the ode, recall a passage in Iliad ( 6. 146 – 9 ).

Zeus rescued the fetal Dionysus, however, by sewing him into his thigh ( whence the epithet Eiraphiotes, " insewn ", of the Homeric Hymn ).

Though the Greek myth of Semele was localized in Thebes, the fragmentary Homeric Hymn to Dionysus makes the place where Zeus gave a second birth to the god a distant one, and mythically vague:

In Hesiod's Theogony and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Zeus granted that Hades could abduct Persephone, suggesting that their roles are sometimes interchangeable.

According to the Homeric Hymn III to Delian Apollo, Hera detained Eileithyia, who was coming from the Hyperboreans in the far north, to prevent Leto from going into labor with Artemis and Apollo, because the father was Zeus.

Celeus or Keleus () was the king of Eleusis in Greek mythology, husband of Metaneira and father of several daughters, who are called Callidice, Demo, Cleisidice and Callithoe in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, and Diogeneia, Pammerope and Saesara by Pausanias.

In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Celeus was one of the original priests of Demeter, one of the first people to learn the secret rites and mysteries of Demeter's cult the Eleusinian Mysteries.

* Kore of Demeter Hagne, in the Homeric hymn.

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 .).

The site of the Telesterion is believed to have had some temple since the 7th century BC, or the time of the Homeric Hymns to Demeter ( 650-550 BC ); the Telesterion had ten different building phases.

Eumolpus is named in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter.

In the Homeric Hymn of Demeter, Demeter in the guise of an old woman as she searches for the abducted Persephone refuses red wine but accepts a drink of barley, water, and pennyroyal called kykeon.

In Homer's Odyssey, Hesiod's Theogony and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the Sun is once in each work called Hyperionides () ' son of Hyperion ', and Hesiod certainly imagines Hyperion as a separate being in other writings.

* In the Homeric hymn to Aphrodite, the goddess uses " ambrosian oil " as perfume, " divinely sweet, and made fragrant for her sake.

* 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.

* alíē ' boar or boarfish ' ( Attic kapros ) ( PIE * ol -/* el-" red, brown " ( in animal and tree names ) ( Homeric ellos fawn, Attic elaphos deer, alkê elk )

A libation is poured any time wine is to be drunk, a practice that is recorded as early as the Homeric epics.

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 ).