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The Homeric Hymns are a collection of thirty-three anonymous Ancient Greek hymns celebrating individual gods. The hymns are "Homeric" in the sense that they employ the same epic meter—dactylic hexameter—as the Iliad and Odyssey, use many similar formulas and are couched in the same dialect. They were uncritically …

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Amongst the great tragedies of the literary world, author's the iliad would probably be reckoned as the first. This epic poem, besides being theapex of greek literature, epitomizes the cornerstone of western culture andrevolves around the critical last year of the trojan war that witnessed thekilling of hector by …