Abstract
Pean, dithyramb, hymn, etc.: in ancient Greece, many forms of sung poetry are addressed to a deity. The ritual performance of these songs often corresponds to a musical offering to the god in exchange for the expected benefit. Questions have been asked about the role played by the naming and qualifying of gods in these sung ritual practices, as well as about the function of groups of divine figures such as the Muses or the Charites, and about that of the heroes who intervene preferably as protagonists of the narrated heroic action. Between myth and ritual, this was an opportunity to return briefly and critically to the notion of " divine power " proposed by Jean-Pierre Vernant in his reluctance to treat the Greek gods as persons.
