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Roman mosaic of Orpheus, the mythical poet to whom the Orphic Hymns were attributed, from Palermo, 2nd century AD [31]. The collection's attribution to the mythical poet Orpheus is found in its title, "Orpheus to Musaeus", [32] which sits above the proem in the surviving manuscripts of the collection; [33] this proem, an address to the legendary poet Musaeus of Athens (a kind of address found ...
Prothyraia's means 'at the door' or 'at the door-way', [3] and is used to denote a goddess who presides over the area around the entrance to a building. [4] Prothyraia is an epiclesis of the goddesses Eileithyia, Hecate, and Artemis; [3] Prothyraia is attested as an epithet of Artemis in a 2nd-century AD inscription discovered in Epidaurus. [5]
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Rephrased along those lines: The Orphic Hymns are most important surviving representative of the genre of hymnic literature attributed to Orpheus.. – Michael Aurel 02:02, 10 February 2025 (UTC) "Editions and translations" should probably be after the references
Orphic mosaics were found in many late-Roman villas. Orphism (more rarely Orphicism; Ancient Greek: Ὀρφικά, romanized: Orphiká) is the name given to a set of religious beliefs and practices [1] originating in the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world, [2] associated with literature ascribed to the mythical poet Orpheus, who descended into the Greek underworld and returned.
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Orphic mosaics were found in many late-Roman villas. Orphism is the name given to a set of religious beliefs and practices [1] originating in the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world, [2] associated with literature ascribed to the mythical poet Orpheus, who descended into the Greek underworld and returned.
Melinoë is described in the invocation of the Orphic Hymn as κροκόπεπλος (krokopeplos), "clad in saffron" (see peplos), an epithet also used for Eos, the personification of dawn. [13] In the hymns, only two goddesses are described as krokopeplos, Melinoë and Hecate.