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The Homeric Hymns

by Apostolos N. Athanassakis · Apostolos N. Athanassakis (trans.)

A translation of the Homeric Hymns, archaic Greek poems in honour of individual gods, with introduction and notes. The longer hymns to Demeter, Apollo, Hermes and Aphrodite are major sources for Greek myth and cult. The Hymn to Demeter tells the foundation story of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

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