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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 ...
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.
He was credited with the composition of a number of works, among which are a number of now-lost theogonies, including the theogony commented upon in the Derveni papyrus, [10] as well as extant works such the Orphic Hymns, the Orphic Argonautica, and the Lithica. [11] Shrines containing purported relics of Orpheus were regarded as oracles. [12]
Fragment of a hekataion with the head of Hecate Prothyraia, 4th-century BC, Museum of Cycladic Art, Greece [1]. Prothyraia (Ancient Greek: Προθυραία, romanized: Prothuraía) is the figure addressed in the second of the Orphic Hymns, a collection of ancient Greek hymns composed around the 2nd and 3nd centuries AD.
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
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. [14]
In the inscriptions which mention Hipta, her name is given as Hípta (Ἵπτα) or Heípta (Εἵπτα), [1] names which are non-Greek in origin. [2] In editions of the Orphic Hymns produced prior to the discovery of Hipta's name in epigraphic evidence, her name was rendered as "Hippa" (Ἵππα), a reading of her name recorded in a number of the collection's manuscripts. [3]
Mise or Misé (Ancient Greek: Μίση) is an Anatolian goddess addressed in one of the Orphic Hymns. She is first mentioned in a mime by the Greek poet Herodas, which references a "Descent of Mise". In the Orphic Hymn addressed to her, she is identified with Dionysus, and depicted as a female version of the