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Greek Mythology and Religion

The Homeric Hymn to Demeter

by Helene P. Foley

A translation of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter with commentary and a set of interpretive essays. Foley reads the poem as a story of mother and daughter, of marriage and of the Eleusinian Mysteries, and reprints influential essays by other scholars.

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