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Homeric Hymns

Homeric tradition

Hymn 10 | Primary edition: Hugh G. Evelyn-White

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Of Cytherea, born in Cyprus, I will sing. She gives kindly gifts to men: smiles are ever on her lovely face, and lovely is the brightness that plays over it. Hail, goddess, queen of well-built Salamis and sea-girt Cyprus; grant me a cheerful song. And now I will remember you and another song also.

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Homeric Hymns

The Homeric Hymns range from brief invocations to extended mythic narratives, offering one of the clearest bridges between epic diction and cult praise.

Hymns | Original language: Ancient Greek

Archaic and later Greek hymn tradition, with core material commonly dated between the 7th and 5th centuries BCE

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Primary Edition

Hugh G. Evelyn-White

English | Prose

Early 20th-century English prose translation

Evelyn-White's Loeb-era translation is a standard public-domain access edition for early Greek hymn material.

This edition preserves canonical hymn numbering and line-span references while reading smoothly in English prose.

Source family: English aggregate translations

Project Gutenberg / Internet Archive / Theoi | Public-domain source texts

English prose and verse classics consolidated into a single aggregate dataset.

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Primary source: English aggregate translations | Project Gutenberg / Internet Archive / Theoi.