Homeric anthems

The Homeric Hymnes are a collection of thirty-four (or thirty-two, according to the calculations) short poems epic. Today, it is estimated that oldest of the anthems, that with Déméter, goes up at the time of Hésiode. Each anthem is dedicated to a god, and is intended to be sung by the Aède as a prelude or proème (of the old Greek προοίμιον / prooímion ), before passing to a longer work. The Homeric Hymnes vary by their subject, their size (from five to five hundred and fifty worms), their time of drafting (between VIIe front S. JC and the 4th century of our era): nothing more disparate, more dubious, therefore, than this compilation of poems. The epithet d'" homérique" , which is allotted to them, is due only to their common meter, the dactylic Hexamètre, worms of the epopee. Among the factors of homogeneity between these works, one also finds formulas identical, announcing that another poem will follow the Homeric Hymne : " … Hello with you, and I will sing you in another hymne". The most interesting Anthems are the parts of some width:

the Hymne in Déméter tells the foundation of the Mystères of Eleusis.
the Hymne at Hermes is a wonder of parody of the epopees, whose burlesque matter is to tell the exploits that Hermes in its first hours of life achieves.
the Hymne with Apollo has as an aim the establishment by the god of its rites. More than any other, it is Littérature moving, through the enumerations of islands and cities to the wire of which Apollon extends his influence on everyone Greek, instituting here and there its sanctuaries and its Mysteries.
the Hymne in Aphrodite describes Aphrodite victim of her own features, succumbing to the charms of Anchise.
the Hymne in Dionysos is the account of the fear which the god with a crew inspires that it takes in aotage and massacre.
the Hymne with Side shines by its style, very required and worthy of finest subtleties of the Alexandrinisme.
the Hymne with Ares is less Homeric than Orphique: it constitutes a relatively revolutionary approach to conceive the report/ratio of the men to the gods, since the god of carnages is called upon there to prevent carnages: one requests the god to preserve the believer of his attributes, instead of him to ask to take part about it. In fact, this Hymne is very late.
the anthems with the Sun and the Moon are remarkable by their symmetry, and the funds Astrologique to which they return.

With Dionysos
With Déméter (see Homeric Anthem in Déméter )
With Hermes
With Aphrodite
In Aphrodite
In Dionysos
With Ares
With Artémis
In Aphrodite
With Athéna
With Héra
In Déméter
With the Mother of the gods (Rhéa/Cybèle)
With Héraclès in the middle of lion
To Asclépios
With the Dioscures
At Hermes
With Side
With Héphaïstos
With Apollo
With Poséidon
With the Almighty wire of Cronos (Zeus)
With Hestia
With the Muses and with Apollo
In Dionysos
In Artémis
In Athena
With Hestia
With the Earth, mother of all (Gaïa)
With Photogravure
With Séléné
In Dioscures

The Homeric Hymnes remain a badly known work, that criticism often regarded as belonging to the obscure troop of the undervalued , used most of the time as development with major works, such as the orphic Hymnes , the Homeric epopee, works of Hésiode or Callimaque. They would however deserve that one is delayed there, for their character of literary dream, and for their own qualities. The comments of Roland Barthes on the proème (in the semiological Adventure ) make it possible to guide a very rich generic approach of it.

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