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Homeric Hymn to Hera

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The Homeric Hymns are 34 anonymous poems in the epic meter, the earliest of which may have been written roughly contemporaneously with Homer and Hesiod. Diane Raynor says it's Thucydides (3.104), who labeled the hymns Homeric because he thought the bard had written them. Not only are the Homeric hymns poems worth reading as literature, but they also include information on mythology, rituals, and places.

The Hymn to Hera may be incomplete.

Homeric Hymn to Hera (XII. To Hera) Translated by Evelyn-White

Public Domain Translation of the Homeric Hymn to Hera

XII. To Hera (5 lines)

(ll. 1-5) I sing of golden-throned Hera whom Rhea bare. Queen of the immortals is she, surpassing all in beauty: she is the sister and the wife of loud-thundering Zeus, -- the glorious one whom all the blessed throughout high Olympus reverence and honour even as Zeus who delights in thunder.

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