ENGB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Homeric Hymns, Cronus, Asclepius
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Homeric hymns: written in a style and meter like homer in the iliad and the. Odyssey: mostly 7-5th century bc (with a few exceptions) It came before quite a few years later: short hymns are preludes to longer poems, long hymns: stand-alone performance at religious festivals. People would come to religious festivals to hear these poems: praise or celebrate gods recited. The sense we get from these works is that we need to appease the gods. Usual members of the pantheon: zeus, hera, apollo, etc, also. Sons of zeus and/or tyndareus and leda: they shared their immortality so one would be asleep for half the day, and the other would be awake, then it would switch. Son of zeus and/or amphitryon and alcmene. Hymn 8 to ares: complicated request, wants the god of war to stop him from rushing into things.
