Ludowe pieśni i zwroty do bogów
Streszczenie
The Greeks had their folk-songs. Among them, the songs to gods are of particular
interest. We possess only meagre fragments of the songs involved, and our knowledge of what
songs were involved is itself incomplete. All folk-songs to gods seem religious in origin and
were composed by obscure folk poets. Some of these songs composed on special occasions
must have existed from very early times. The songs to gods were sometimes loosely attributed
to well-known poets like Homer, Archilochos, Arion. In our times we only have fragments
of songs to Demeter, Dionysus, Artemis, Apollo, Aphrodite and Zeus. The songs contain
usually prayers to the gods. They assume sometimes a form of magic formulas.