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A Homer Commentary in Progress

Homeric Hymns To Earth, Mother of All 17-19

Greg Nagy

Last updated at March 12, 2020, 4:47 p.m.

Read in Context

comparison of the hymnic prooimion that leads to the epic of the Wooden Horse in O.08 with the hymnic prooimia in Homeric Hymns, in the context of the analysis of the correlation of Apollo and the Muses with Zeus as transcendent hymnic subjects