Homeric Hymn to Zeus (23)

Catalogue ID: 02-olympian-gods/114-homeric-hymn-zeus-23

Cycle: Olympian gods — Zeus / short Homeric Hymn

Version line: Homeric Hymn XXIII — brief praise of Zeus as counsel and Themis’s consort

Sources: Homeric Hymn to Zeus (23); cf. Hesiod, *Theogony* 901–906 (Zeus and Themis)

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Characters

Artemis — best and greatest; fulfiller; wide-seeing
Themis — sits leaning to him in counsel

Places

Olympus — implied seat of Zeus–Themis counsel

Themes

Narrative

The short Homeric Hymn to Zeus hails the best and greatest of gods, wide-seeing Zeus who brings fulfillment (*teleios*), who converses with Themis as she sits leaning close. The singer asks him to rejoice. The hymn’s force is the pairing of sovereign Zeus with Themis (Right Order / divine law) as intimate counselors—no Titanomachy, no metamorphoses, no city contest. Catalogue it as Zeus’s brief hymn-atom in the Homeric Hymn corpus.