Abstract
There is hardly a genre in Greek literature in which space is more important than that of the Homeric hymns. Two hymns are even devoted entirely to aetiological stories of how a god founds one of his sanctuaries: Delos and Delphi in the Hymn to Apollo and Eleusis in the Hymn to Demeter. Hymnic gods not only have cult sites but also cult objects. The combination of the miraculous divine and the anthropomorphic (route) is typical for the conception of the gods in Greek literature. There is one hymn which contains an exceptionally long reference to the narrator's space, which turns out to be the same as the setting of its narrative: the island of Delos in the Hymn to Apollo. The most radical case is the island of Delos in the Hymn to Apollo, the depiction of which constantly switches between the physical and the anthropomorphic. Keywords:Apollo; Delos; Greek literature; homeric hymns; hymnic gods
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