Prayer to Aphrodite
Aphrodite
Of Kythereia, born in Kypros, I will sing. She gives kindly gifts to men: smiles are ever on her lovely face, and lovely is the brightness that plays over it. Hail, goddess, queen of well-built Salamis and sea-girt Kypros; grant me a cheerful song. And now I will remember you and another song also.
Fons · Source
AuthorAnonymous (Homeric corpus)
WorkHomeric Hymns
Section10 (to Aphrodite)
Periodarchaic Greek (7th-4th c. BC)
Occasionshort Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite — invocation of the smiling goddess of Salamis and Cyprus
Classificatio · Taxonomy
Culturegreek
Formhymn
DeitiesAphrodite
Functionsinvocation · petition
Spherefertility