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  2. Homeric Hymns - Wikipedia

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    The Homeric Hymns (Ancient Greek: Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι, romanised: Homērikoì húmnoi) are a collection of thirty-three ancient Greek hymns and one epigram. [a] The hymns praise deities of the Greek pantheon and retell mythological stories, often involving a deity's birth, their acceptance among the gods on Mount Olympus, or the establishment of their cult.

  3. Delphic Hymns - Wikipedia

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    Fragments of both hymns in the Delphi Archaeological Museum. The Delphic Hymns are two musical compositions from Ancient Greece, which survive in substantial fragments.They were long regarded as being dated c. 138 BC and 128 BC, respectively, but recent scholarship has shown it likely they were both written for performance at the Athenian Pythaids in 128 BC. [1]

  4. Orphic Hymns - Wikipedia

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    The Orphic Hymns are a collection of eighty-seven ancient Greek hymns addressed to various deities, which were attributed to the mythical poet Orpheus in antiquity. They were composed in Asia Minor, most likely around the time of the 2nd or 3rd centuries AD, and were used in the rites of a religious community which existed in the region.

  5. Oxyrhynchus hymn - Wikipedia

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    The lyrics of the Oxyrhynchus hymn were written in Greek, and poetically invoke silence for the praise of the Holy Trinity (i.e. cosmic stillness, a motif of ancient Greek hymnody). [3] Historically, the hymn demonstrates Greek civilizational continuity where erudite Christian Greeks used and accepted the musical notation of their classical ...

  6. Dithyramb - Wikipedia

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    Attic relief (4th century BCE) depicting an aulos player and his family standing before Dionysos and a female consort, with theatrical masks displayed above. The dithyramb (/ ˈ d ɪ θ ɪ r æ m /; [1] Ancient Greek: διθύραμβος, dithyrambos) was an ancient Greek hymn sung and danced in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility; the term was also used as an epithet of the god. [2]

  7. Music of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek warrior playing the salpinx, late 6th–early 5th century BC, Attic black-figure . Music was almost universally present in ancient Greek society, from marriages, funerals, and religious ceremonies to theatre, folk music, and the ballad-like reciting of epic poetry. This played an integral role in the lives of ancient Greeks.

  8. Hymn - Wikipedia

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    The Western tradition of hymnody begins with the Homeric Hymns, a collection of ancient Greek hymns, the oldest of which were written in the 7th century BC, praising deities of the ancient Greek religions. [12] Surviving from the 3rd century BC is a collection of six literary hymns (Ὕμνοι) by the Alexandrian poet Callimachus. [13]

  9. Category:Hymns in ancient Greek - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek wedding hymns (2 P) Pages in category "Hymns in ancient Greek" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.