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Homeric Hymns

Homeric tradition

Hymn 23 | Primary edition: Hugh G. Evelyn-White

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Line 1 of 4

Line RefHugh G. Evelyn-White | Ancient Greek
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Ζῆνα θεῶν τὸν ἄριστον ἀείσομαι ἠδὲ μέγιστον,

2

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εὐρύοπα, κρείοντα, τελεσφόρον, ὅστε Θέμιστι

3

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ἐγκλιδὸν ἑζομένῃ πυκινοὺς ὀάρους ὀαρίζει.

4

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ἵληθʼ, εὐρύοπα Κρονίδη, κύδιστε μέγιστε.

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

You are reading Hymn 23.

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.tlg023.perseus-grc2:23.1 -> urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0013.tlg023.perseus-grc2:23.4

Pinned source commit: 91595f89e15b

Source path: data/tlg0013/tlg023/tlg0013.tlg023.perseus-grc2.xml

Primary source: Greek canonical pilot texts | PerseusDL canonical-greekLit.

Canonical pilot note: this original-language edition is currently imported for Hymn 23 only and carries line-level CTS URNs in the runtime corpus.