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# Homeric Hymns API

> Homeric Hymns API: get any passage by its reference, as JSON. Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1914. 220 passages, public domain, no key needed.

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

```bash theme={null}
# HH 2.1-3
curl https://api.urantia.dev/scriptures/homeric-hymns/2.1
```

```json theme={null}
{
  "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

```bash theme={null}
# 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](https://docs.urantia.dev/scriptures.md) explains how the links are made, and the [MCP server](https://docs.urantia.dev/mcp-servers.md) has the same calls for AI agents.

## Source

* **Text:** The Homeric Hymns, translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914)
* **Source:** [www.gutenberg.org](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/348)
* **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.


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