- Kind of writing
- Lyric poetry
- Dialect
- Ionic/Epic
- Written
- 6th c. BC
- Length
- 3,946 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 53% common words
- In the library
- 1 Greek text, 1 English translation
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
- Greek textAnonymous. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. Evelyn-White, Hugh G., editor. London: William Heinmann; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1914.
- English translationAnonymous. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica. Evelyn-White, Hugh G., translator. London: William Heinmann; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1914.
In The Painted Stoa
Entries that quote or point to this work's Greek.
The secret kept by thousands for a thousand yearsThe Eleusinian MysteriesEvery autumn for about a thousand years, crowds walked the fourteen miles from Athens to Eleusis to be initiated into the Mysteries of Demeter and her daughter Persephone.Healing herbs, killing cups and the smoke of the ScythiansDrugs and poisonsThe Greeks had one word for a medicine, a poison and a magic spell: pharmakon.