{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0013.tlg007.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0013.tlg007.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0013.tlg007.local001","title":"Hymn 7 To Dionysus","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Anonymous","authorityName":"HYMNI HOMERICI","authorUrl":null,"authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0013-hymni-homerici/","editors":["Hugh G. Evelyn-White"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica","edition":null,"publisher":"William Heinemann Ltd.","place":"London","date":"1914","volume":null,"series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":null,"url":null},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/hesiodhomerichym00hesiuoft/hesiodhomerichym00hesiuoft/page/428/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Hymn 7 To Dionysus. ed. Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica, London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1914. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0013.tlg007.local001","excerpt":"ἀμφὶ Διώνυσον, Σεμέλης ἐρικυδέος υἱόν, μνήσομαι, ὡς ἐφάνη παρὰ θῖν’ ἁλὸς ἀτρυγέτοιο ἀκτῇ ἔπι προβλῆτι νεηνίῃ ἀνδρὶ ἐοικώς, πρωθήβῃ· καλαὶ δὲ περισσείοντο ἔθειραι, κυάνεαι, φᾶρος δὲ περὶ στιβαροῖς ἔχεν ὤμοις πορφύρεον· τάχα δ’ ἄνδρες ἐυσσέλμου ἀπὸ νηὸς ληισταὶ προγένοντο θοῶς ἐπὶ οἴνοπα πόντον, Τυρσηνοί· τοὺς δ’ ἦγε κακὸς μόρος· οἳ δὲ ἰδόντες νεῦσαν ἐς ἀλλήλους, τάχα δ’ ἔκθορον. αἶψα δ’ ἑλόντες εἷσαν ἐπὶ σφετέρης νηὸς κεχαρημένοι ἦτορ. υἱὸν γάρ μιν ἔφαντο διοτρεφέων βασιλήων εἶναι καὶ δεσμοῖς ἔθελον δεῖν ἀργαλέοισι. τὸν δ’ οὐκ ἴσχανε δεσμά, λύγοι δ’ ἀπὸ τηλόσε πῖπτον χειρῶν ἠδὲ ποδῶν· ὃ δὲ μειδιάων ἐκάθητο ὄμμασι κυανέοισι· κυβερνήτης δὲ νοήσας αὐτίκα οἷς ἑτάροισιν ἐκέκλετο φώνησέν τε· δαιμόνιοι, τίνα τόνδε θεὸν δεσμεύεθ’ ἑλόντες, καρτερόν; οὐδὲ φέρειν δύναταί μιν νηῦς εὐεργής. ἢ γὰρ Ζεὺς ὅδε γ’ ἐστὶν ἢ ἀργυρότοξος Ἀπόλλων ἠὲ Ποσειδάων· ἐπεὶ οὐ θνητοῖσι βροτοῖσιν εἴκελος, ἀλλὰ θεοῖς, οἳ…","divisions":[{"label":"Εἲς Διώνυσον","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0013.tlg007.local001/#tlg0013-tlg007-local001-urn-cts-greeklit-tlg0013-tlg007-perseus-grc2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0013.tlg007.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0013.tlg007.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0013/tlg007/local001.json.gz"}}