Hymn cycle · 1899
The Homeric Hymns
Translated by Andrew Lang (1899)
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Andrew Lang’s prose version of the thirty-three Homeric Hymns, the anonymous invocations to the Greek gods that antiquity ascribed to Homer. Lang numbers them in his own order, so his Hymn IV is the long Hymn to Demeter. Square brackets in the text are Lang’s own, marking passages of doubtful authenticity; his essays, notes and illustrations are omitted.
Contents · 33 parts
- I. To Apollo59 paragraphs
- II. Hermes51 paragraphs
- III. Aphrodite23 paragraphs
- IV. Hymn to Demeter36 paragraphs
- V. To Aphrodite1 paragraph
- VI. To Dionysus3 paragraphs
- VII. To Ares1 paragraph
- VIII. To Artemis1 paragraph
- IX. To Aphrodite1 paragraph
- X. To Athene1 paragraph
- XI. To Hera1 paragraph
- XII. To Demeter1 line
- XIII. To the Mother of the Gods1 paragraph
- XIV. To Heracles the Lion-Heart1 paragraph
- XV. To Asclepius1 paragraph
- XVI. To the Dioscouri1 paragraph
- XVII. To Hermes1 paragraph
- XVIII. To Pan1 paragraph
- XIX. To Hephaestus1 paragraph
- XX. To Apollo1 paragraph
- XXI. To Poseidon1 paragraph
- XXII. To Highest Zeus1 paragraph
- XXIII. To Hestia1 paragraph
- XXIV. To the Muses and Apollo1 paragraph
- XXV. To Dionysus1 paragraph
- XXVI. To Artemis1 paragraph
- XXVII. To Athene1 paragraph
- XXVIII. To Hestia1 paragraph
- XXIX. To Earth, the Mother of All1 paragraph
- XXX. To Helios1 paragraph
- XXXI. To the Moon1 paragraph
- XXXII. To the Dioscouri1 paragraph
- XXXIII. To Dionysus3 paragraphs