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Epic and Hymns
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ArgonauticaThe only complete Hellenistic epic — Apollonius of Rhodes' tale of Jason, the Golden Fleece, and Medea's love rendered with unprecedented psychological depth.HesiodThe farmer-poet's twin pillars of Greek religion — Works and Days on justice and honest labour, and the Theogony on the genealogy of the gods.Homeric Hymn to AphroditeThe Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite — the goddess of love, subjected to her own power, falls for the mortal Anchises on Mount Ida. Good Works Translation from the Ancient Greek.Homeric Hymn to ApolloThe longest and most celebrated of the Homeric Hymns — the birth of Apollo on Delos and the founding of his oracle at Delphi. Translated from Ancient Greek by the New Tianmu Anglican Church.Homeric Hymn to DemeterThe Homeric Hymn to Demeter — the oldest account of Persephone's abduction and the founding of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Good Works Translation from the Ancient Greek.Homerica — Epic Cycle and Minor Works (Evelyn-White)Homerica — Epic Cycle Fragments and Minor Works in Evelyn-White's translation: the Cypria, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Sack of Ilium, The Returns, The Telegony; the Battle of Frogs and Mice; Homeric Fragments; and the Contest of Homer and Hesiod. The lost epics of the Greek Epic Cycle.IliadThe foundation stone of Western literature — Homer's epic of the wrath of Achilles and the siege of Troy in twenty-four books.OdysseyHomer's archetype of every journey narrative — Odysseus's ten-year voyage home through monsters, gods, and the longing the Greeks called nostos.The Homeric Hymns — Evelyn-WhiteThe complete Homeric Hymns — all 33 hymns to the Olympian gods — in Hugh G. Evelyn-White's 1914 translation. To Demeter, Hermes, Aphrodite, Apollo (Delian and Pythian), Dionysus, Ares, Helios, Selene, and all the lesser hymns.