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2 unusual facts about Homeric hymns


Douglas Leedy

From 2003, most of his music has appeared under the name Bhisma Xenotechnites, including not only his settings for voice(s)and instruments (in Greek) of Homeric Hymns, but also such obviously anti-Western works as Ein kleines Wagner Notizbuch (2005), a collage of emasculated Wagner quotations for the same ensemble as his 1965 octet Quaderno Rossiniano, and H5N1 (2006) for extremely high-pitched instruments or whistlers and antique cymbals.

Wang Huansheng

Wang is among the first few in China who translated the Homeric Hymns from Classical Greek into Chinese language.


Mimesis Criticism

In addition to imitating the Septuagint and Homer's Odyssey, MacDonald proposes that Mark's Gospel and Luke-Acts used the following literary models: Homer's Iliad, several Homeric Hymns, Euripides' Bacchae and Madness of Heracles, and dialogues by Plato and Xenophon about Socrates.


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Daemonia Nymphe

Their lyrics are drawn from Orphic and Homeric hymns and Sappho's poems for Zeus and Hekate.