Homeric Hymns

The Homeric Hymns are a collection of thirty-three anonymous ancient Greek poems, composed in the same epic verse form (dactylic hexameter) and old-fashioned style as the "Iliad" and "Odyssey." Each is addressed to a particular god or goddess, ranging from brief invocations to longer narrative hymns telling stories about deities such as Demeter, Apollo, Hermes, and Aphrodite. Probably composed by various poets over several centuries (roughly the seventh century BCE onward), they were conventionally grouped with Homer in antiquity but are not the work of a single author and were not written by Homer.