Hesiod’s "Hymn to Hecate"
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Hesiod, Hecate, Theogony, Archaic Greek PoetryAbstract
Few Greek divinities have such a broad representation diversity as Hecate. While in the Classic and Hellenistic periods the image that seems to prevail is that of Hecate as goddess of magic and protector of witches, in the Archaic period her ambiguity is much more remarkable: the Hecate featured in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter has little in common with Hesiod’s Hecate. In this sense, this paper aims to analyze Hecate’s representation in the Theogony (verses 404-452), attempting to understand the approximation (and also deviation) with other representations of the goddess in Greek literature.
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