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Prothyraia's means 'at the door' or 'at the door-way', [2] and is used to denote a goddess who presides over the area around the entrance to a building. [3] Prothyraia is an epiclesis of the goddesses Eileithyia, Hecate, and Artemis; [2] Prothyraia is attested as an epithet of Artemis in a 2nd-century AD inscription discovered in Epidaurus. [4]
Roman mosaic of Orpheus, the mythical poet to whom the Orphic Hymns were attributed, from Palermo, 2nd century AD [32]. The collection's attribution to the mythical poet Orpheus is found in its title, "Orpheus to Musaeus", [33] which is the heading of the proem (an address from the poet to the legendary author Musaeus of Athens, which precedes the rest of the collection); [34] this address to ...
The Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo is the oldest extant account of Leto's wandering and birth of her children, but it is only concerned with the birth of Apollo, and treats Artemis as an afterthought; in fact the hymn does not even state that Leto's children are twins, and they are given different birthplaces (he in Delos, she in Ortygia). [31]
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.
Orpheus was an augur and seer; he practiced magical arts and astrology, founded cults to Apollo and Dionysus, [27] and prescribed the mystery rites preserved in Orphic texts. Pindar and Apollonius of Rhodes [ 28 ] place Orpheus as the harpist and companion of Jason and the Argonauts .
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The following year, Apollo released his debut EP, Stereo, in May 2018. After he signed a deal with Warner Records in 2022, Apollo’s debut album, Ivory , was released in April of that year.
[379] Apollo was associated with the Sun as early as the fifth century BC, though widespread conflation between him and the Sun god was a later phaenomenon. [380] The earliest certain reference to Apollo being identified with Helios appears in the surviving fragments of Euripides' play Phaethon in a speech near the end. [101]