Abstract
The Homeric Hymn to Apollo presents the Olympians as thinking agents who transform material facts by imagining future projects. Each tale narrates how Olympian planning enabled naturally impoverished places to become wealthy and honored mortal communities. The hymnist’s descriptions of festivities at Delos and on Olympus illustrate how the naturally determined aspects of mortal existence are ameliorated by the Muses’ gift of wisdom. The hymn’s tales of Olympian projects and actions in the past offer mortals a pedagogy in imagination and planning the future.
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