Abstract
This article analyses the narrative Homeric Hymn IV: to Hermes, composed during the Archaic period (8th-6th centuries BC), according to Victor Turner's Anthropology -in other words, as a social drama. In doing so, it portraits how the hymn -a religious document- can be useful to study the development of Hellenic juridical and political thought since it serves as a metaphor to social conflicts that occurred in Archaic Greece and offers them a possibility of pacific resolution by means of arbitration and negotiation in a public setting.
Keywords:
Archaic Greece; History of Law; Homeric Hymns