Homeric Hymns

Homeric tradition

Hymn 22 | Primary edition: Hugh G. Evelyn-White

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Line 1 of 7

Line Ref	Hugh G. Evelyn-White \| Ancient Greek
1	Primary ἀμφὶ Ποσειδάωνα, μέγαν θεόν, ἄρχομʼ ἀείδειν, Permalink
2	Primary γαίης κινητῆρα καὶ ἀτρυγέτοιο θαλάσσης, Permalink
3	Primary πόντιον, ὅσθʼ Ἑλικῶνα καὶ εὐρείας ἔχει Αἰγάς. Permalink
4	Primary διχθά τοι, Ἐννοσίγαιε, θεοὶ τιμὴν ἐδάσαντο, Permalink
5	Primary ἵππων τε δμητῆρʼ ἔμεναι σωτῆρά τε νηῶν. Permalink
6	Primary χαῖρε, Ποσείδαον γαιήοχε, κυανοχαῖτα, Permalink
7	Primary καί, μάκαρ, εὐμενὲς ἦτορ ἔχων πλώουσιν ἄρηγε. Permalink

Text notes and edition context

Work

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

Ancient Greek | Verse

Greek base text via Perseus canonical TEI

These are the Perseus-distributed Greek hymn witnesses keyed by canonical hymn number.

Pilot canonical-spine import for the Homeric Hymns with one canonical file per hymn and CTS identity preserved.

Source family: Greek canonical pilot texts

PerseusDL canonical-greekLit | CC BY-SA 4.0 upstream canonical text

Pinned canonical Greek TEI imports staged as pilot source-of-truth readings.

CTS range: urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0013.tlg022.perseus-grc2:22.1 -> urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0013.tlg022.perseus-grc2:22.7

Pinned source commit: 91595f89e15b

Source path: data/tlg0013/tlg022/tlg0013.tlg022.perseus-grc2.xml

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