Ancient Wisdom Atlas

Motif

divine praise through song

divine_praise_through_song

A motif of the Enchanting Music and Sound Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.

1 occurrences

1 traditions


greek

  • Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica XVIII. TO HERMES / XIX. TO PAN / XX. TO HEPHAESTUS / XXI. TO APOLLO; lines 7229-7248 confidence: medium

    The clear-voiced Muses are asked to sing of Hephaestus, famed for inventions; with bright-eyed Athene he taught glorious gifts to humans throughout the world.

    The passage invokes the Muses to sing of Hephaestus and describes both a swan and a lyre-holding minstrel as singing of Phoebus/Apollo.

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