Homeric Hymns. Homeric Apocrypha. Lives of HomerPerformances of Greek epics customarily began with a hymn to a god or goddess as Hesiod's Theogony and Works and Days do. A collection of thirty three such poems has come down to us from antiquity under the title "Hymns of Homer." This new Loeb Classical Library volume contains, in addition to the Hymns, fragments of five comic poems that were connected with Homer's name in or just after the Classical period (but are not today believed to be by the