This final subject is treated more fully than in the passing references made by Allen, Halliday and Sikes and is addressed with the aid of subsequently published papyri of Sappho and Alcaeus. 1-9) before focusing on Apollo, Hermes, and Aphrodite individually and discussing their structure (and unity), authorship and date, language and style, interests (especially, in aetiologies for cults, oracles, festivals, and family-lines), matters of genre and performance, and points of contact both with the other Homeric Hymns and with early Greek poetry (pp. The Introduction begins by examining the nature, purpose, and origins of the whole corpus of Homeric Hymns (pp. x), he has achieved exactly that for these early hexameter poems about the exploits of three Olympian deities. By drawing on years of teaching and of supervising graduate work on these texts (p. 1 Richardson states that his goal has been “to enable students of these delightful poems both to understand and to enjoy them more fully” (p. It also complements the larger-scale commentary by Richardson himself on the Hymn to Demeter and that by Faulkner, one of his doctoral students, on the Hymn to Aphrodite.
This “Green and Yellow” commentary on three of the four longer Homeric Hymns effectively supplants the treatment of them in the full edition of Allen, Halliday and Sikes.
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