The Homeric Hymns · 1914
Hymn XII — To Hera
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)
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(ll. 1-5) I sing of golden-throned Hera whom Rhea bare. Queen of the immortals is she, surpassing all in beauty: she is the sister and the wife of loud-thundering Zeus,—the glorious one whom all the blessed throughout high Olympus reverence and honour even as Zeus who delights in thunder.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Homer. The Homeric Hymns, Hymn XII — To Hera. Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/homeric-hymns/11/.
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Homer. The Homeric Hymns, Hymn XII — To Hera. Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/homeric-hymns/11/.