He caught her up reluctant on his golden car and bare her away

It was a thing of awe whether for deathless gods or mortal men to see: from its root grew a hundred blooms and it smelled most sweetly, so that all wide heaven above and the whole earth and the sea's salt swell laughed for joy.Īnd the girl was amazed and reached out with both hands to take the lovely toy but the wide-pathed earth yawned there in the plain of Nysa, and the lord, Host of Many, with his immortal horses sprang out upon her -the Son of Cronos, He who has many names. She was playing with the deep-bosomed daughters of Oceanus and gathering flowers over a soft meadow, roses and crocuses and beautiful violets, irises also and hyacinths and the narcissus, which Earth made to grow at the will of Zeus and to please the Host of Many, to be a snare for the bloom-like girl -Ī marvellous, radiant flower. 8th ed., Modern Language Association of America, 2016.I begin to sing of rich-haired Demeter, awful goddess -of her and her trim-ankled daughter whom Aidoneus rapt away, given to him by all-seeing Zeus the loud-thunderer.Īpart from Demeter, lady of the golden sword and glorious fruits, But unless you are directed otherwise by a publisher or a scholarly journal, enclose the titles in quotation marks when citing your essay in MLA style. Note that it is common for publishers to italicize the titles of the Homeric hymns in scholarly discussions of the hymns.

Evelyn-White, William Heinemann, 1920, pp. “To Demeter.” Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, translated by Hugh G. One of the Homeric hymns to Demeter gives the goddess the epithet “lady of the golden sword and glorious fruits” (“To Demeter” 289). In an essay, you might write the following: According to the MLA Handbook, titles of works that are contained in a larger work are enclosed in quotation marks (68). When citing the Homeric hymns, treat them as a coherent collection of anonymous works. They are Homeric only in the sense that they were written in the same meter as Homer’s poems. The Homeric hymns refer to poems that were once attributed, mistakenly, to the ancient Greek poet Homer. For up-to-date guidance, see the ninth edition of the MLA Handbook. Note: This post relates to content in the eighth edition of the MLA Handbook.

The homeric hymn to demeter