I. Genre and presentation
The term Homeric Hymns (HH) refers to thirty-three poems in dactylic hexameters, which have been preserved together with the hymns of Callimachus [3], the Orphic hymns ( Orphism), and the hymns of Proclus [2], and are addressed to single Olympic deities or to a group of Olympic deities acting as a unity (text: [1; 2; 4; 8]). The length of the hymns addressed to Apollo (H. Hom. 3), Hermes (H. Hom. 4) and Aphrodite (H. Hom. 6) is comparable to that of an indi…