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Orphic Hymn 71 is addressed to Melinoe, and describes her as follows (in the translation by Apostolos Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow): I call upon Melinoë, saffron-cloaked nymph of the earth, whom revered Persephone bore by the mouth of the Kokytos river upon the sacred bed of Kronian Zeus.
There exist two main traditions around the birth of Dionysus: the standard version, in which he is the child of Zeus and Semele, and an Orphic version, in which he is born to Zeus and his daughter, Persephone. [168] The Orphic Hymns reference both of these parentages, mentioning the birth of Eubuleus (a name for Dionysus) to Zeus and Persephone ...
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.
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]
Persephone and Dionysos. Roman copy after a Greek original of the 4th–3rd century B.C. Marble. Hermitage.. In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone (/ p ər ˈ s ɛ f ə n iː / pər-SEF-ə-nee; Greek: Περσεφόνη, romanized: Persephónē, classical pronunciation: [per.se.pʰó.nɛː]), also called Kore (/ ˈ k ɔːr iː / KOR-ee; Greek: Κόρη, romanized: Kórē, lit.
The Orphic Trilogy, a series of films by Jean Cocteau (1930–1959) Eurydice, a play by Jean Anouilh (1941) Orfeu da Conceição, a play by Vinicius de Moraes (1956) Orpheus Descending, a play by Tennessee Williams (1957) Black Orpheus, a film by Marcel Camus (1959) Evrydiki BA 2O37, a film directed by Nikos Nikolaidis (1975)
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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