Homeric Hymns To Apollo 318-321

Hera’s speech on her plan to give birth to Typhaon on her own as glorifying Athena and Athens (here, Hera’s complaint about the lack of status of Hephaistos, the similar status of Hera’s new offspring and Athena, and Hera’s attempt to destroy Hephaistos as reflecting poorly on her), in the context of the analysis of the addition of the passage on Hera’s bearing Typhaon to the hymn as an expansion of an older hymn after the First Sacred War