Homeric Hymns API - urantia.dev

The API serves The Homeric Hymns (Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1914) as JSON, one passage at a time, by the reference people use. Thirty-three ancient Greek hymns to the gods. It has 220 passages in 33 hymns. No key and no account.

Get a passage

# HH 2.1-3
curl https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/homeric-hymns/2.1

{
  "data": {
    "corpus": {
      "slug": "homeric-hymns",
      "title": "The Homeric Hymns",
      "translator": "Hugh G. Evelyn-White",
      "year": 1914
    },
    "passages": [
      {
        "ref": "HH 2.1-3",
        "division": 2,
        "text": "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."
      }
    ]
  }
}

The slug homeric-hymns, the id homeric-hymns-evelyn-white-1914, and the prefix hh all name this text.

References

Hymn and line, HH 2.1. GET /scriptures/homeric-hymns lists every hymn with its first and last reference.

Search

# By meaning
curl -X POST https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/search/semantic \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q":"your question","corpus":"homeric-hymns","limit":5}'
# By keyword
curl 'https://api.urantia.dev/works/search?q=your%20words&work=homeric-hymns'

Each passage also links to the closest paragraphs of the Urantia Papers: GET /scriptures/homeric-hymns/2.1/urantia-parallels. The world religions guide explains how the links are made, and the MCP server has the same calls for AI agents.

Source

Text: The Homeric Hymns, translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)
Source: www.gutenberg.org
License: Public domain in the United States
Notes: Hymn and Greek lines (HH 2.1-3), as Evelyn-White marks them. A gap in the Greek text is left out.