The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and Related Texts: Text, Translation and Commentary by S. Douglas Olson

The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite and Related Texts: Text, Translation and Commentary

S. Douglas Olson

341 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

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The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (600s BCE?) tells the story of a brief encounter between the goddess of love and the cowherd Anchises, which led to the birth of the Trojan hero Aeneas. Less than 300 lines long, it is among the shortest of the so-cal...

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