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with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nhttps://archive.org/details/isbn  \n9781605063249  \n☆  \nThe Homeric Hymn toDemeter  \nForgotten Books takes the uppermost care to preserve the wordingand images from the original book.However,this book has beenscanned and reformatted from the original,and as such we cannotguarantee that it is free from errors or contains the full content of theoriginal.  \nThe Homeric Hymn to Demeter  \nBy  \nHomer  \nTranslated from the Greek by  \nHugh G.Evelyn-White  \n需  \nFirst published 1914  \nRepublished 2007 by Forgotten Books  \nwww.forgottenbooks.org  \n# DID YOU KNOW.….?\n\nYou can read any and all of ourthousands of books online for  \nJust visit:  \nwww.forgottenbooks.org  \n世山!  \nvii  \n## PUBLISHER’S PREFACE\n\nAbout the Book  \n\"In Greek mythology Demeter(\"mother-earth\"or possibly\"distribution-mother\"from the noun of the Indo-Europeanmother-earth *dheghom*mater)is the goddess of grain andfertility,the pure nourisher of the youth and the green earth,the health-giving cycle of life and death,and preserver ofmarriage and the sacred law.She is invoked as the \"bringer ofseasons\"in the Homeric hymn,a subtle sign that she wasworshipped long before the Olympians arrived.Another storystates that she was one of the twelve Olympians.The HomericHymn to Demeter has been dated to sometime around theSeventh Century BC.She and her daughter Persephone werethe central figures of the Eleusinian Mysteries that alsopredated the Olympian pantheon.  \nThe Roman equivalent is Ceres,from whom the word \"cereal\"isderived.\"  \n(Quote from wikipedia.org)  \n## About the Author\n\n\"Homer,the greatest name in this history of epic poetry,andwho stands as high in that department as William Shakespearedoes in the drama,has come down to us in modern timesunfortunately as little better than a name,and presentsmaterials for biography as scanty as those which he offers forcriticism are rich.We are not,however,forced to go to suchlengths of doubt in his case as Aristotle did in the case of  \niii曹  \nOrpheus,denying that such a man ever existed;for thoughthere was a time(particularly in Germany)of skepticism as tothat possibility,there is now almost unanimous verdict in favorof the historical reality of the author of the lliad and theOdyssey.Not that any reliance is to be placed on the details ofthe old Greek lives of Homer,which are manifestly fictitious;butthe internal evidence of the epics themselves leads to the beliefin an authorship such as agrees substantially with the kernelfrom which these very ancient legendary traditions weredeveloped.The central fact in which allthese traditions agree is,that the author of these poems was an Asiatic Greek;andthough other places are named,the greatest amount oflegendary evidence clearly points to Smyrna as the city ofHomer's birth.The dialect in which the lliad and Odyssey arewritten --the lonic --is the very variety of Greek which wasafterwards used in the same region by Herodotus,the father ofhistory,and Hippocrates,the first and greatest of Greekphysicians;and the allusions to natural phenomena,especiallythe frequent mention of the strong nortwest wind blowing fromThrace,plainly indicate the west coast of Asia Minor as thefamiliar residence of the poet.The chronology of the Homericpoems,both as respects the great central event which theycelebrate--the Trojan War --and the age of the poet himself,ismuch more doubtful;but it is quite certain that Homer livedconsiderably before the recognition of a regularly receivedrecord of dates among the Greeks--that is,before the year 776BC,the commencement of the calculation by Olympiads.Thedate given by Herodotus for the age of Homer --400 yearsbefore his own time,that is,about 850 BC --is probableenough;but considering the entire want of any reliablefoundation for chronology in those early times,we must notseek an accuracy in this matter beyond 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