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The Homeric Hymns

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Demeter rejoices at the return of her daughter, Persephone.

The Homeric Hymns are a collection of hymns that were written to the Greek gods  (and some of the famous heroes and demi-gods of the Greek heroic age).

Although the this collection of hymns is called ‘Homeric’,  they were most probably not written by the poet Homer (the attributed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey). They have been given the title of ‘Homeric’ because they use the same poetic meters and language style as the Iliad and Odyssey.

 

 

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