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 Good Works Library.
  • 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.