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    the Homeric Hymn to Demeter in 1777 led to a resurgence of European interest in the hymns. In the arts, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe used the Hymn to Demeter...
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    of the most notable Homeric Hymns, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, tells the story of Persephone's abduction by Hades and Demeter's search for her. When...
    91 KB (10,266 words) - 04:55, 17 August 2024
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    William Heinemann, Ltd. Evelyn-White, H.G. (1914) Homeric Hymn to Demeter (2), in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G...
    103 KB (10,988 words) - 17:10, 21 August 2024
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    Hades (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    particularly as represented in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, which is the oldest story of the abduction, most likely dating back to the beginning of the 6th century...
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    Calypso (mythology) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    wrote that it was Pleione, mother of the Pleiades. Hesiod, and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, mention either a different Calypso or possibly the same Calypso...
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  • Celeus (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    and Callithoe in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, and Diogeneia, Pammerope and Saesara by Pausanias. In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Celeus was one of the...
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    were probably mere poetic inventions. The probably nearly as old Homeric Hymn to Demeter lists twenty-one names, sixteen of which match those given by Hesiod...
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  • Nereids (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    Georgics 4.341; Nonnus, Dionysiaca 41.153 Hesiod, Theogony 349–361; Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 418–423 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 26.355 Virgil, Georgics 4.341 Virgil...
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    ISBN 3110934191. Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 4–20, 414–434. "Theoi Project – Persephone". Theoi.com. Retrieved 6 July 2012. The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, 411–412...
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  • Eumolpidae (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    Demeter at Eleusis, through his second son, Herald-Keryx. Eumolpus, "untainted by blame" is named among the archaic leaders of Eleusis in the Homeric...
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    narcissus, maidenhair fern (adianthus), and cypress were given to Pluto. In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Gaia (Earth) produced the narcissus at Zeus's request...
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    Eleusinian Mysteries (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    related to a myth concerning Demeter, the goddess of agriculture and fertility as recounted in one of the Homeric Hymns (c. 650 BC). According to the hymn, Demeter's...
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  • Erebus (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    1919. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G...
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  • Hyperion (Titan) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    Theogony 131–136; Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter, 26, 74; Apollodorus, 1.1.3. Hesiod, Theogony 371–374; Apollodorus, 1.2.2. The Homeric Hymn 31 to Helios 1–8 calls...
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    Baubo (category Deeds of Demeter)
    an act of Anasyrma. In other sources such as the Homeric Hymn to Demeter the role of cheering Demeter up is filled by a slave named Iambe who does so by...
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  • Electra (Oceanid) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    Persephone when the daughter of Demeter was abducted by Hades. Hesiod, Theogony 349 & 362–366; Homeric Hymn to Demeter 5 & 418; Apollodorus,1.2.2 Kerényi...
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    Kykeon (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, the goddess refuses red wine but accepts kykeon made from water, barley, and pennyroyal. It was supposed to have digestive...
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  • Kerykes (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    grain-goddess at Athens who preceded the revenge-filled Demeter Erinys 'at Eleusis.The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (147) names her Maia, also the mother of Hermes...
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    Triptolemus (category Consorts of Demeter)
    the archaic Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Triptolemus is briefly mentioned as one of the original priests of Demeter, one of the first men to learn the secret...
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    Oceanids (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Homeric Hymn to Demeter (2), in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G...
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