The Orphic Hymns are a collection of eighty-seven hymns addressed to various deities, and are among the few extant works of Orphic literature. They were most likely composed in Asia Minor, possibly in the second or third centuries AD. The poems, in dactylic hexameter, are relatively short in length, and the collection is prefaced by a dedication entitled "Orpheus to Musaeus"; each individual hymn comes alongside a prescribed offering. Among the deities praised in the Hymns, Dionysus is given the place of highest importance.[1] The poems survive through a manuscript which also contained the Homeric Hymns, the Orphic Argonautica, and the hymns composed by Callimachus and Proclus.[2] At the beginning of the 20th century, Otto Kern postulated that the poems belonged to a religious community in Pergamon, a view which some later scholars have accepted.
^Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Orphism, Orphic poetry; West 1983, p. 29.
The OrphicHymns are a collection of eighty-seven hymns addressed to various deities, and are among the few extant works of Orphic literature. They were...
the OrphicHymns and the Orphic Gold Leaves demonstrate that Persephone was one of the most important deities worshiped in Orphism. In the Orphic religion...
Retrieved 2020-07-08. Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy. "ORPHICHYMNS 41-86 - Theoi Classical Texts Library". www.theoi.com. Retrieved 2020-07-08...
Musaeus (OrphicHymns), 24 (Athanassakis and Wolkow, p. 4). Meisner, p. 172. West, pp. 99–100; Orphic Argonautica, 28 (Vian, p. 76) [= Orphic fr. 238 Bernabé...
Similarly to Hesiod's account, the OrphicHymn to Themis calls her the daughter of Gaia and Uranus, and the OrphicHymn to the Seasons calls her the mother...
so-called "Orphic" mysteries. He was credited with the composition of a number of works, including several theogonies, the OrphicHymns, and the Orphic Argonautica...
manuscripts either on its own or together with the OrphicHymns and other hymns such as the Homeric Hymns and those of Proclus and Callimachus. The poem was...
mythology, Zagreus (Greek: Ζαγρεύς) was a god sometimes identified with an Orphic Dionysus, a son of Zeus and Persephone, who was dismembered by the Titans...
the OrphicHymns, which are assumed to have originated from the Τελεται of the Dionysiac mystic circles in Asia Minor of the 1st – 3rd centuries. Hymn 41...
illustrious Titan. — OrphicHymn 78 to the Dawn. The position of the hymn in the collection at number 78 is odd, far from the Hymns to the Night (3), the...
Evelyn-White, Hugh, The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard...
strife and hatred and the violent fiends of death. OrphicHymn 65 to Ares (trans. Taylor) (Greek hymns 3rd century BCE to 2nd century CE) To Ares, Fumigation...
Internet Archive. Athanassakis, Apostolos N., and Benjamin M. Wolkow, The OrphicHymns, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013) ISBN 978-1-4214-0882-8. Google...
Archive, 1965. Athanassakis, Apostolos N., and Benjamin M. Wolkow, The OrphicHymns, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4214-0882-8. Google...
University Press. Athanassakis, Apostolos N., and Benjamin M. Wolkow, The OrphicHymns, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-4214-0882-8. Internet...
Homeric Hymns (Ancient Greek: Ὁμηρικοὶ ὕμνοι, romanized: Homērikoì húmnoi) are a collection of thirty-three Ancient Greek hymns and one epigram. The Hymns praise...
Hermes had assigned each person his share of intelligence. One of the OrphicHymns Khthonios is dedicated to Hermes, indicating that he was also a god of...
Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God OH, an abbreviation for the OrphicHymns 0H (disambiguation) (zero H) H0 (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
considered the daughters of Zeus and Oceanid Eurynome. According to the OrphicHymns, they were the daughters of Zeus and Eunomia, while Cornutus records...
identity) of Adrasteia, the distributor of rewards and punishments. In the Orphichymns, Aphrodite Urania is described as the mother of Ananke and ruler of the...
referred to as "both male and female" or "both female and male" in the OrphicHymns, including Selene, Athena, and Adonis. In Cyprus and Athens, an aspect...
Internet Archive. Athanassakis, Apostolos N., and Benjamin M. Wolkow, The OrphicHymns, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013) ISBN 978-1-4214-0882-8. Google...
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