Prayer to Demeter, Persephone
Demeter · Persephone
I begin to sing of rich-haired Demeter, awful goddess, of her and of her daughter lovely Persephone. Hail, goddess! Keep this city safe, and govern my song.
Fons · Source
AuthorAnonymous (Homeric corpus)
WorkHomeric Hymns
Section13 (to Demeter)
Periodarchaic Greek (7th-4th c. BC)
Occasionshort Homeric Hymn to Demeter — civic invocation for the safety of the city and the song
Classificatio · Taxonomy
Culturegreek
Formhymn
DeitiesDemeter, Persephone
Functionsinvocation · petition
Sphereagricultural · civic