![]() ![]() These ancient Greek hymns (songs of praise), thirty-three in total (some manuscripts add a thirty-fourth: a very short hymn to xenoi or “foreigners”), were attributed to Homer in antiquity, but the dates for the individual poems vary most of them date to the seventh and sixth centuries BC. ![]() ![]() But the ancient Greeks attributed a number of other poems also to Homer, including the so-called “Homeric Hymns”. We don’t know whether this was his actual name, and academic opinion is divided on whether or not the two poems are even the work of a single individual. In ancient times, the author of the epic poems Iliad and Odyssey was thought to have been a man called “Homer”. This article was originally published on the defunct Ancient World Magazine website and is now re-published here. ![]()
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